Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possesses no "battle cruisers" (superdreadnaughts with almost destroyer speed) while Britain and Japan have four each...
...veins and a wide experience of U. S. life, once a practicing attorney in his native Nebraska before he became a teacher of law. His personality matters little. His mind astonishes. The analytical and retentive powers are developed to a point that permits him to lecture, with staggering speed and intricacy and unfailing accuracy of citation, unaided by a single note. Second only to his accuracy is his energy. To hear Dean Pound tally up the work he has despatched in a day sounds like an ordinary man's hopeful program for the coming week...
...essential qualifications for a successful hammer thrower are height, weight and strength coupled with speed in throwing. The training in this event for the college man consists of many years of concentrated work. It is, however, quite possible to develop a thrower during his college career, to break Tootell's present record of 181 feet 6 1-2 inches. Tootell himself never had any scholastic experience but took up this event for the first time during his undergraduate days at college...
...athletes who will round out half a century of competition this year will be struggling to surpass records which in many instances are world marks. Yet a glance through the early summaries reveals that the improvement has been slow and sure and the gradual increase in speed and distance makes one wonder just what marks can be reached by competitors...
...mile relay race never has been included in the intercollegiate championships, but if I had an opportunity to choose an all-time one-mile relay team, picking the men on the basis of speed, experience, and reliability, I would choose the four men in this order: J. E. Meredith of Pennsylvania. Maxey W. Long of Columbia, Frank J. Shea of Pittsburgh and Charles D. Reidpath of Syracuse. All of these men have won I.C.A.A.A.A. titles, and to my way of thinking they would be from seven to ten yards faster than any combination of runners in the past 25 years...