Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Representatives undoubtedly gets through its business with commendable speed, although often we come to believe that it is accomplished through log rolling and the docile follow-the-leader voting of men who respect the machine which elected them. In the Senate again, business is undoubtedly oftentimes outrageously delayed, but we often suspect that the delays are caused by independent-thinking Senators who refuse to vote till they have aired the entire question...
...paths are slim for electrons going at high speed, broader for slower moving ones. This is a phenomenon noted in Professor Floyd Karker Richtmyer's physics laboratory at Cornell University and announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor...
...rectum. Anatomically it corresponds to the womb. Normally it has the shape of a large chestnut 1¼ to 1½ in. wide by 1 to 1¾ in. long. It produces a thin, cloudy, slightly alkaline, albuminous secretion, the physiological function of which is to increase the swimming speed of the microscopic male seed from a sluggish low to a high of one inch in two minutes...
...logical successor to Walter Camp, is foremost in the United States of the many who have picked mythical elevens this year. Ticknor beat out Heinecke of Stanford for the position, and he would not have done so except for his weight advantage of twenty pounds and his superior speed...
General Crack (Warner). A fairly successful effort has been made to bring speed and glitter to this costume romance. It has all been expertly tailored for John Barrymore's profile, for his bark, his meditative scowl, his glance of an amorous lion, his strides in high, patent-leather boots. On a white charger he leads his mercenaries into battle and pushes back with long, stiffened fingers the cloaks attached to various 18th Century uniforms. He is a soldier of fortune who earns his living fighting wars for popinjay princes and who takes a dislike to his current employer because...