Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...conqueror of the Masurian Lakes. His quick, decisive thrusts like his famous flanking attack on the Marne, are a match for the ponderous strokes of Hindenburg. His reserve army rushed swiftly into place at the Yser, saved the Channel ports. Though Foch is noted chiefly for his boldness and speed and striking personal appeal, his policy is always sound: Joffre has called him the greatest strategist in Europe...
...defences are well organized and trainee through long practice. To the Germans they are comparatively new, and they cannot yet have obtained such an efficient defence. The attacks have been delivered in the great factory region of the Rhine, where the men and women, working all day at top speed in clanging manufactories, cannot relish the noise and confusion of an air raid...
...also reached the finals of the 60-yard service dash; winning the third heat of the preliminaries in the time of six and four-fifths seconds. However, in the final heat he was outclassed and failed to place. French of the Portland Naval Station, by a final burst of speed, was the winner in six and two fifths seconds, equaling the world's record. W. Rollins '16, former University sprinter, now in the M. I. T. aviation school, after a hard-fought struggle nosed out Proud of the Navy Yard for second place, losing to French by little more than...
...have the chief responsibility for increasing the output of tonnage. Great Britain is already working at top speed, and is also handicapped in the importation of raw materials. We have unlimited resources for making ships and must use them to the utmost. The Shipping Board is working for four million tons this year and with its new organization and wide powers ought to approximate this mark...
Unlike a first-class flivver, speed is to be the prime requisite, for to catch the elusive U-boat one must be able to sail circles around it. As is to be expected, comfort will not be found in anything built at the Ford plant. Much less will Wilhelm II rejoice at the thought of these pests among his imperial submersibles, for he can no longer rest assured of his weekly and ever-weakening toll of Allied vessels. Per chance Kultur will make him scoff when he hears a flivver manufacturer is going to check his naval warfare, but more...