Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrow sped away-but not very fast. These are economical times. Congress does not like to appropriate for the Navy-so cruising is done at an economical speed, 11 knots...
Shade vs. Slattery. Young Jimmy Slattery, whose bright speed, whose cruelly efficient hands, led the canny to acclaim him as a new Corbett (TIME, June 8), had been promised almost $17,000 if he would devote a few brisk moments to one David Shade* from California. It was not fair, people said-Shade was only a welterweight, while Slattery had defeated Jack Delaney, one of the best of the light heavies...
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Almost at once, a solid cushion of fog robbed them of all observation of drift and ground speed. A powerful gale sprang from the northeast, forced them west, cost them heavily in priceless gasoline. Two hours later, they outran the fog, came out above a solid white of the polar ice, ridged, hummocked, corrugated like a sheet of twisted steel...
Sporting princes are not the monopoly of Britain. Last week, in Bucharest, Crown Prince Carol jumped into his racing automobile, clapped on his goggles, slipped in his clutch and shot off with the speed of a well-oiled wavelength. Precisely, he was contending with 22 others in a race...