Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could Builder Ley's prophecy be considered a thought fathered by a wish. The already granted (effective May 1) five-day week for Manhattan bricklayers adds no speed to the erection of Mr. Ley's Chrysler Building, 42nd and Lexington, world's tallest (870 ft.) tower. Other famed Ley Manhattan skyscrapers are Fisk Building, 57th & Broadway; Liggett Building, 42nd & Madison; Westinghouse Building, 150 Broadway. Mr. Ley has constructed office buildings, apartment buildings, factories, sewers, trolley lines, bridges, waterworks, dams, highways and war camps (Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., built in ten weeks), but neither in his early days in Springfield, Mass...
...ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin...
...perfumed" ?the new king. He was 18, golden-haired, pink-and-white, husky, gusty, eager to begin the business of running England. His penny-pinching old father had run that business pretty well, had piled up money, but the son thought Henry VII had been piddling. He would speed up the small but rich-going concern, put himself and England on the map. He always thought of himself first and said that all he did was for the glory of God. That was the fashion. Solidly behind him stood all England?soldiers, churchmen, ministers, tradesmen...
...which is the date set for the annual interscholastic track meet may witness another speed event of even greater importance. Negotiations are under way between the Lampoon editors and the board of the Princeton Tiger for a relay race between the editors of the two publications at Soldiers Field on the date...
...number of hikers has been eat almost in two, helping to prove that the desire of the Freshmen is for games requiring speed and head work instead of merely strength and endurance. This is further evidenced by the increase in such sports as lacrosse, handball, baseball, fencing, and polo as well as tennis and track while hiking, swimming, singles, and crew decreased...