Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost the celebrated 12-inning play-off game against the Cubs which decided the National League pennant. Mordecai Brown-the pitcher with the pirate's name-worsted him in that struggle, "the hardest game," Mathewson said, "of my life." In 1914 he injured his right shoulder. Still, with speed impaired, he could win games with his curves, his strategy, his matchless fadeaway. For a while, he tried without much success, to manage Cincinnati. When the U. S. entered the War, he enlisted in the Gas Service...
...second factor is going to be increased speed. The coming car of exclusive character, Chrysler declares, will have 100 horsepower and be able to attain speeds up to 90 miles an hour for sustained intervals without overheating. Combined with this increased speed will be greater riding comfort...
...people excitedly told each other that all 16 had crashed down together on the bleak Hempstead Moors and that all the pilots were dead. Pilot Basil Rowe, flying a Thomas Morse 54E plane with an Aero- marine motor, contradicted this extravagance by buzzing in a winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return. -a Bellanca plane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlain, carrying one Lawrence Buranelli, passenger. It had tipped a telephone wire with a right wing, come crashing down into the backyard...
...weighs 200 pounds and can run 100 yards in ten seconds, back of his own goal. The ball is passed back to him, the number of backward passes depending upon the position of the line of scrimmage (four will usually suffice.) Receiving it, he starts running at top-speed in circles, gradually widening until he crosses the enemy goal line. The duty of the other Harvard men is to keep out of his way. I have proved mathematically that he cannot be stopped. My formula follows: 200 lbs x 32 ft. per sec. x 3.1416./100 yds. x 11 Holy...
...Ford field at Dearborn, Mich., last week for a 1,900-mile trip. Edsel Ford flagged them away. He had put up a large silver trophy for the winner of this "Reliability Test." Planes were judged on the consistency of their performances. They buzzed steadily ahead, not trying for speed but just to see which could stick at it best. At Indianapolis they were met by rain, at Chicago by a cheering crowd. In Omaha Pilot "Casey" Jones wriggled between two other contestants to make a landing-on top of a motorcycle; cycle and plane were wrecked. Mechanics worked through...