Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweeps the speed of the growing city . . . George Gewurtz, a lusty young contractor. Frau Zwenge smells the soundness of his bricks and mortar?his automobile, real estate, immediacy. Karl Bleicher is behind the rushing times and Greta is pushed, swept off into George's arms...
...Harvard ends will have plenty of work to do today. The Brown backs, Keefer, Payor, and Dixon, are famed for their speed and shiftiness. Keefer has successfully circled most of Brown's opponents' ends, but will have a hard time. getting around Sayles and Bradford today...
...same men who manned the electric board a week ago will again be in action, and with the experience gained in the Princeton game broad-cast, the reports will be flashed at a greater rate of-speed today...
...from the Christian quarter, leaving the other Christian nationals to the protection of their consuls and at the mercy of the mob, which was fortunately not extremely hostile to non-French foreigners. And for 48 hours French shot and shell poured into the city; French tanks dashed at full speed through the streets, firing point blank into bazars and houses; and French airplanes dropped bombs...
...seaplane took off at the Bayshore aerodrome near Baltimore, slithered like a curving bullet round the seven laps of the 50 meter Schneider Trophy course. "Click!" went the timing instruments. Officials figured for a moment-announced that Lieut. Jame Doolittle had covered the course at an average speed of 232,573 miles per hour, which was 43,753 miles an hour faster than the previous (unofficial) world record for seaplanes set at Bayshore a year...