Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which the negative one or cathode could be heated white hot electrically before introducing the main current. About this cathode was built another innovation in vacuum tubes, a metal cup designed to repel electrons backfiring against it and converge them forward in a narrow stream at greatly accelerated speed. This stream was pointed down the tube's other neck, a foot long, the sides of which were likewise sheathed in metal to guide the electrons on their way. At the tube's end was the main feature of the invention, the "window." This constituted a vast improvement upon...
...electrons leapt from the hot cathode, moving perhaps two miles per second. Rebounding from the metal cup about the cathode, they raced off down the 12-inch exit passage of the tube until, when they reached the "window," they were going some 150,000 m.p.s. (four-fifths the speed of light). Their volume was virtually undiminished as they shot through the thin nickel foil and out into heavy, molecular air, where their effects were at once visible and startling...
...drive? Perhaps, if you are touring, you allow a day-a late start, a leisurely lunch somewhere along the road, an arrival about dusk. If, on the other hand, you happened to be one Harry Hartz of Los Angeles, you would allow 1 hour, 37 minutes, 21.25 seconds; this speed, a new world's record, he made last week at Salem...
...Miller '27, the heaviest back on the field, he showed in the Holy Cross game that he has added finesse to his strength, speed, weight, and courage...
...supply truck, down a very steep hill. With me were J. L. Shute and Edgar Barrier, a Columbia graduate. The roadway was wet and I applied all the brakes we had to slow us up a bit. Naturally, 'Jezebel's' brakes burned out and we dashed down at terrific speed. At the bottom, we hit another car, demolishing it, and then flattened five concrete posts before, turning over in a ditch. Shute and I went out through the roof at the first collision, but Barrier was pinned down and had his arm broken...