Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Auxiliary ships with increased speed must be developed, because these ships now constrain the fleet to a speed of less than 10 knots. only ship of its type now belonging to the Navy...
...Fleet submarines must be constructed, because the present submarines are obsolete and inferior in speed, cruising radius, ventilation...
...past five years. As to what the electrons are doing when they are not radiating, chemists and physicists on the whole hold divergent views. The chemist believes the electrons are at rest (what I call "the loafer theory"), but the physicist believes they are rotating in orbits at enormous speed. The chemist argues that such activity would soon dissipate all their energy, which is unanswerable if the electromagnetic laws are assumed to be valid even in the structure of atoms. But this assumption is gratuitous. The orbit theory has now been substantiated by several successful quantitative tests, but the original...
...manner he is affable and courteous. He receives many people from all classes and listens to complaints patiently as he puffs cigarette after cigarette. When he commands, he expects to be obeyed and he intimates this by giving his orders with speed, precision, mastery...
...present, however, the march of progress has increased in speed to such an extent, and operating costs have risen so high, that the resources which were formerly sufficient for two newspapers are now barely enough for one. And with this change in material affairs has gone an alteration of character, which makes the daily journal less opinionated and biassed, and more impersonally informative. The editor has become more an executive, and less a "Keeper of the Soul of America...