Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus unfortunate to confine his discernment to features of size, speed and novelty. Industrialism tends to emphasize a rapid rhythm at the expense of a lingering over the rich notes. When one rose is about to flower and one tree about to bear, whole gardens of novelties and orchards of variations are already in bud. Time is not left to determine whether the apple, apart from its fractional refinements, is socially palatable, much less to test its elder worth in the press of speculation...
...basketball five won a fast game with the Brown Freshmen. The Brown quintet played the same skilful game that has won in many other contests. The score at the halves was a tie, 12 to 12. After the halves both teams reentered the arena with even greater speed and the Crimson attack won out with the final score...
...final burst of speed, working until 11:00 o'clock at night on the last day, the Senate passed the tax reduction bill and it went into joint conference to iron out the differences between the House's idea and the Senate's idea of tax reduction...
...point of light moving swiftly over a revolving field of ground glass. The motion of the point of light is governed by current received from the transmitting station, where the image of an object or person is made to pass over a photo-electric cell at immense speed, through lenses in a revolving disk. Using ordinary methods to broadcast the words of people moving before the televisor lenses, it was found that sight and sound synchronized perfectly at the receiving...
Germans, being sturdy and efficient, are good at all sports in which method is more important than speed. They make excellent oarsmen. In 1905 the Atlanta Boat Club (U.S.) sent a four-oared shell to compete in a regatta at Hamburg. In 1914 a German shell raced in the Henley regatta. But not since that year, for various reasons, have the oarsmen of Hamburg pulled against those of the U.S. Last week the Hamburg Rowing Club sent its compliments to five U.S. colleges, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania, and invited them to come to Hamburg for the annual regatta...