Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case for the prosecution against a number of prominent Fascisti, who sought to minimize their guilt by incriminating one another, was being prepared with all possible speed and it was believed that an important announcement would shortly be made...
Zinoviev, however, counselled the Reds not to lose heart. Said he naively: "We were mistaken in our judgment regarding the speed of the world revolution, and where we had to calculate upon years we have been calculating upon months. But time works in our favor, and we are now witnessing the strengthening of the Communist movement in practically every country of the globe." One fine, starry night the 500 delegates trooped into Red Square at Moscow and grouped themselves around the jet black tomb of Lenin. To the top of the tomb went Kalinin, the peasant-President of the Central...
...evening in Rome, a man carrying a large portfolio sauntered along the Tiber embankment. A closed car drove up, out jumped two men, the man was seized, thrust into the car, driven off at high speed, while the three men struggled inside. Some time later an agitated Signora noticed that her husband had been long absent. Alarm was raised; search parties organized; all to no purpose. Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, multimillionaire Socialist, husband of the distressed Signora, was missing. It was presumed that he was the man seized on the bank of the Tiber...
...miles an hour at most. The airman and Nature's fliers left Miller Field on Staten Island about the same time. The first three pigeons soared high above the aviator, led the race till plane and birds were all lost to view. Quite evidently they had speed. But although Kendrick, fighting strong head winds, had to land twice for gasoline-once at Philadelphia and again at Baltimore-he beat the fastest bird by 2 hours, 41 minutes. The fastest pigeon took 6 hours, 11 minutes to reach the home of his owner-one F. W. Dismer of Columbia Road...
Looping is one of the simplest airplane maneuvers. The pilot dives his ship steeply towards the earth and gains tremendous speed. He then turns his elevator or horizontal up, so that the rush of air bears downward on the tail of his plane. Naturally the nose of the ship goes up, the plane climbs, the nose goes lighter and higher and for a brief moment of time the ship is flying upside down, only to dive again and resume its normal attitude. When correctly executed, the loop is seen as a beautiful, smooth curve...