Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instrument threw down its drone to the ground. A seaplane tipped out of a cloud. The singing stretched before and behind it like a wire. In the plane Major Mario de Bernardi of Italy moved through a last kilometre of air. He had won the Schneider Cup race. His speed, unprecedented, was 246.496 miles an hour...
...race had been very exciting. The course was 217 miles (350 kilometres). The high wires snored. The crowd vibrated like a church window shaken by an organ pipe. They discovered that Lieutenant C. F. Shilt, U. S. M. C., flying a 615 horsepower Curtiss, was second with an average speed of 231.363 miles an hour. Lieutenant Tomlinson, in an old Curtiss Hawk, was way behind them all. The third American, Lieutenant Cuddihy, came down with engine trouble. So did Captain Ferrarin, famed Rome-to-Tokyo flyer. Lieutenant Adriano Bacula, 218.006 miles an hour, was third...
...Yale fumbled on its own 29-yard line, and Saltonstall fell on the pigskin and held it tight. Three yards were lost at the line on the next play, and then Chauncey fell back and shot the bullet-like pass to Saltonstall that carried the Harvard hopes. At full speed, stretching and straining, Saltonstall clutched the oval and dashed the ten yards to tie the count. Chauncey's drop-kick put Harvard ahead...
...question of speed, I confidently predict that the dirigibles of the future will exceed 100 miles an hour. This means a passenger from New York would arive in London in about 30 hours. At present, we can go 60 miles an hour in some airships, which is much faster time than the best trans-Atlantic liners make...
...snow and ice below me to visualize the unfortunate explorers of the past. Brave men had wasted their lives in crawling toward the Pole over the ice and snow and frozen drifts of this Arctic area which we were flying over in comfort at ten times their best speed! When I considered these explorers with their dogs and sleds and years of wasted effort, I felt almost guilty because of my own easy progress. I think we all felt somewhat solemn when we reached the region of the Pole...