Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President of the Chamber Fernand Bouisson glanced at the bulky ream of manuscript which Prime Minister Poincare carried and quickly disconnected the system of null warning lights lately installed to speed parliamentary debate (TIME, July 8). The Chamber settled itself for a long session. M. Poincare piled high the sheets of paper in front of him, all written in his own microscopic hand, and poured out a formidable drink of water...
Monster Seaplane. To the Glenn L. Martin Co. went a Navy contract for the largest, most powerful, fastest flying boat ever developed. Specifications: three Pratt & Whitney motors producing 1,725 h. p. Top speed, 140 m. p. h. Cruising radius, 2,000 miles. Crew, five men. Cost, $150,000. Construction time, one year. This all-metal seaplane will serve the Navy as a "fighting patrol...
...Pittsburgh last week the world's first aluminum street car, half as heavy as steel, permitting high speed with comfort, made its first run, revived lagging public interest in trolley transportation...
...most important observation that Drs. Boas and Weiss made is that the heart rate of an individual during sleep is an index of the speed at which his heart must beat to meet his physiological needs. In sleep he is least disturbed by thoughts or outside influences. Sleeping normal heart rates ranged roughly from 40 to 55 beats a minute for males, 50 to 65 beats for females, whereas the generally accepted "normal" rate for males is 62, for females...
...having lunched, he goes motoring (35 m. p. h. minimum speed). Sometimes he goes as far as Bridgeport, to see his good friend, Mrs. Ira Warner. Returning he telephones No. 26 Broadway, transacts business, for he has not completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...