Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recently several British merchant ships sailed up the Yangtze River at full speed, swamping a number of native boats, drowning more than 100 passengers, soldiers and military officers and destroying much merchandise...
...attorney who had obtained, for Abby, a suspended sentence when she had been nabbed for the second time by an irreverent traffic patrolman. The city room of the American buzzed at the prospect of an old-fashioned beat: 'Daughter of Oil King's Son to Wed Humble Speed Case Benefactor...
...anchor. Due to the rotating movement of the earth, all these hurricanes revolve (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) in a manner similar to U. S. western tornadoes, save that, of course, they are vastly more destructive. The centre is sometimes almost motionless, whereas the outside rim attains the greatest speed in exactly the same manner that the outside rim of any circular object-a wheel, for example-travels faster than any point nearer the centre. Hence seamen invariably reach a calm spot when fighting their way through these hurricanes...
Since General von Seeckt, the directing genius of the Reichswehr, has declared: "Trench warfare is out of date," the war games were featured chiefly by attempts to maneuvre at tremendous speed and as much under cover as possible. Several battalions were marched over hill and dale as far as 25 miles in one day, and the trucks representing tanks were driven at breakneck speed...
...Pilot C. S. "Casey" Jones, a celebrated, daring and slightly comic figure from Garden City, L. I., placed third in this event, then stepped into a wing-clipped Curtiss Oriole and won the 84-mile Independence Hall free-for-all, tipping around the pylons at an average speed of 136.11 m.p.m., ahead of the "mystery" racer of Harry F. Pitcairn, Philadelphia millionaire enthusiast...