Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a great statesman prepared to speed toward Geneva last week, as preparations for the December session of the Council of the League of Nations reached their final stage. Early comers were greeted by the following development...
...normal people expansion and contraction of the heart and the arteries go on without effort in perfect team play. But when the heart-in the worn-out or sick- must push the blood in abnormal amount or at too great speed through the arteries, these stretch, lose their elasticity, their contractile powers. They thicken in spots: thin in others. Them too the blood tries to heal; brings serum to weak spots, serum which turns gelatinous, gelatine which hardens, calcifies. The arteries become ropy, then hard like the stems of clay pipes. The patient has hardening of the arteries...
...like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane was hooked by a special apparatus, hoisted to the trapeze, lifted back into the body of the dirigible. The British Air Ministry declared that this experiment has been attempted before but never successfully. If the technique is perfected, it will be of incalculable value...
...year's Freshman pitcher, and a member of the University football squad this fall, is making a good bid for one of the two guard positions left vacant by the graduation of last year's backs, Morrison and Samborski. Barbee has the height and physique necessary, but he must speed up his handling of the ball in order to fit regularly into the five-man offense which Coach Wachter advocates...
Captain Debevoise tried desperately to break the steadiness of his opponent's play by changing his style of game several times, without much success. Wright was going at top speed from the start and his supposed weakness against a soft...