Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Schneider Cup races (TIME, Nov. 22), came to the White House last week to receive the congratulations of President Coolidge. A racing automobile and a steamship had carried him to Washington from Norfolk, Va., after he had casually broken his own seaplane record with a new speed of 258.873 miles per hour...
...hurried with his bustling undersecretaries to catch the regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that...
...Hayama the black chariot of Death waited last week to speed heavenward the Son of Heaven, Yoshihito, the 123d Emperor of Japan...
Pratt's absence will be more keenly felt. He was not only strong on the defence, but was responsible for many a scoring dash down the ice. He was tall and rangy, and depended more on his speed, stamina and stickhandling than upon weight. But Coach Bigelow still has three letter men to choose from. These are Captain Ellison, C. D. Coady '27, and E. C. Clark '27. Any college coach would consider his defence problems solved with such material, but these three men will have to wage war for their positions against two stars of last years. Freshman team...
Captain Ellison is at the same time one of the most awkward and the most effective of hockey players. With a peculiar gait, comparable perhaps to that displayed by great open field runners such as Grange and Mahan, he moves up the ice at a speed that is not apparent from the spectators' seats. On the defensive, his tremendous reach, his weight and his aggressiveness make him effective if not graceful. Coady, who will report for hockey after a two weeks lay-off, is of all the Crimson skaters the least versatile, but he makes up, in the excellence...