Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grim poilus in steel helmets replaced the police guard of the Palais Bourbon one day last week. Within, the Deputies tensed expectantly. Without, an ugly-minded crowd surged and shouted. Suddenly the motor car of Premier Poincaré approached at a speed which gave the mob of malcontents no option between scattering and suffering body bruises. They scattered, reassembled to hoot when he had passed safely into the Chamber. From M. Raymond Poincaré, the Wartime president of France (1913-20), the post-War Premier (1922-24) who sought to collect German reparations by occupying the Ruhr, only one policy...
This is the season when crop reporters are at their busiest. They are the gentry who flit about the countryside gathering data on agricultural conditions, data useful to farmer, middleman, speculator and consumer. Accuracy, speed and skillful surmise count mightily in the interplay of production, consumption and profits. Let him profit who best knows how, is the attitude of the Department of Agriculture, great compiler of pertinent statistics...
...good point, well taken.-Ed. Speed...
...Most Excellent Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, finally attained and held for 50 minutes a pinning speed of one decoration every six seconds...
...multiplied speed of Western Union's new cable, 2,500 letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...