Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...injury to any of his players on the slippery turf of the practice field, Coach Horween took his football squad under shelter of the baseball cage for yesterday afternoon's session. The scheduled scrimmage had to be cancelled in favor of a dummy scrimmage, a signal drill at top speed, and a talk on the football rules by Coach Horween...
...Edward of Wales paid £675 ($3,280) last week for a two-seater De Havilland Gypsy Moth plane with dual controls. Slow and safe, the ship has a cruising speed of but 90 m. p. h., can land on much smaller fields than the Royal Air Force still planes used by heretofore Flying P.' used ie by H. R. Minister H. James and Ramsay MacDonald. On his first flight in the Moth last week, dutiful Scion Wales was piloted to Sandringham to visit his parents, was deposited smartly on their lawn. Later, by handling one of the ship...
...brains of tree frogs and from the juice se cured an extract which he called centronervin. That extract, when injected into the lymph systems and thence into the blood stream of live frogs stimulated them remarkably. It toned up their muscles, made them stronger, especially it seemed to speed up their reactions. Treated frogs saw flies more quickly than normal frogs, caught more of them. Brain juices of rats, dogs and cows caused comparable effects on individuals of those classes...
...dancing and visiting, thanks are largely due to the automobile. And if they run more risks than in the days of the horse there is the same cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates push their cars--as very often they push themselves--to the limit is the force that keeps many parents...
...yards and then Fincke punted to Putnam who was downed on his own 15 yard line. Here the University team started a drive that finally culminated in a score. Mason and Putnam completed the only forward of the day, one which was good for 25 yards and then Mason speed around end for 23 more yards. Five rushes at the tired second team line put the ball over with Mason carrying it on the final attempt. Putnam's kick was high and wide...