Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base. The base is to be 360 by 260 ft., with four main arches, each 39 ft. high, opening into the heart of the pile. Batteries of high-speed elevators will be installed to race aloft through the tower to class rooms, laboratories, shops, libraries distributed on the building's 52 floors...
...designs call for a cruising speed of 70 m.p.h. as compared with 50 for the Shenandoah, fuel and oil for 2,500 mi. with 50% reserve, a crew of 40, 120 passengers housed in comfortable two-berth cabins along the sides of the ship, a smoking room and a lounge big enough for dancing...
...Rogers would be used. Sayles and Kilgour are left for the third place. The farmer has only recently been brought up from the scrubs and the latter has never been seen in the backfield, so that it is impossible to judge between them. A pure guess based on speed and weight favors Kilgour...
...difficult to discuss the general policy of the Black and Orange in regard to strategy, for almost anything it tried worked. Its trick plays were a big advantage. They accounted for substantial gains and were seldom diagnosed by Harvard largely on account of the speed and precision with which they were executed. A Tiger back would turn, fake an exchange, turn again and plunge through a hole made vacant by the stratagem...
Just thirty-four seconds elapsed between the end of the Harvard-Princeton game on Saturday, and the time when the first CRIMSON football 2extra came off the press. This establishes a new record for speed in preparing the paper for press. As one of the compositors remarked, "If it hadn't been for the Princeton guy who scored in the last minute of play, we'd have got it off just one second after the game ended...