Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...between her two wings) she will be driven by her single Packard motor (an 825-h.p. V-type) at 110 m.p.h. Her propeller is enormous-a 15½-ft. traction blade, of such thrust that it is geared to one half the motor's speed turning only 1,100 revolutions per minute. (Smaller propellers must make 1,400 to 2,400 r.p.m.) Engineering skill has arranged that 50% of the Cyclops' final flying weight, 16,600 Ibs., shall be "useful load", i.e. 4,000 lbs. of bombs; 2,500 lbs. of fuel, enough...
...oftener than anybody else. In the Davis Cup matches Johnston has made a better record than Tilden. But on the court with the bleak-faced Philadelphian his strength becomes as thistledown. In curious truth, the very soundness and accuracy of his game are helpful to the champion. Tilden likes speed. He likes a high-bounding ball. Johnston gives him both. Although "Vinny" Richards often beats Tilden, he did not last week. With a devastating return to his old brilliance, the champion at the Westchester Biltmore swamped his onetime pupil...
...special carriage being necessary to help her off the ground. (This will be dropped en route, ordinary wheels serving for the Paris landing.) As fuel is used up, one motor will be cut out, then another, leaving two reserve motors for the end of the flight. The average speed will be 110 m.p.h.; estimated flying time, New York-to-Paris, 35 hrs. All the past week, U. S. weather men have been mapping Atlantic air-currents for Captain Fonck's benefit. Trans-Atlantic steamers have flashed weather reports. Steamships are supplied with cards bearing silhouettes...
...stage-setting for 153 pages, before putting her characters in motion. Similarly, the reconstruction of Chicago is rich, racy but redundant. Splendid characters and material are worn down by overuse of the catalog sentence, repetition of scenes. Nevertheless, the material and characters are splendid; the theme broad, native. Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars-a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion. The Author. Edna Ferber, pride of Kalamazoo, Mich., where she was born 39 years ago, and at Appleton, Wis., whose public schools she attended, lives beside Central Park nowadays, a national celebrity...
...most impeccable residential street in Europe. From the leafy Bois de la Cambre a motorcycle sped into the quiet Avenue, its exhaust rat-tatting raucously. The gendarmes' whistles screamed. . . . "Your papers, Monsieur, your license? It is not permitted to circulate upon the Avenue de Louise at such a speed. C'est interdit...