Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shining across Biscayne Bay in Florida one day last February as William John Matheson, retired chemical tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
...week's outboard motorboat race took 3 hrs. 36 min. 40 sec. When the yellow boat with its Johnson D motor reached 152nd St., Commodore Eldridge fired another pistol and black-mustached Jacob Dunnell of Boston had broken a record for the Albany-New York course. His average speed was 37.4 m. p. h. Honors in last week's race went to the Johnson D motors which won first, second, sixth, seventh and eighth places. Third place went to an Elto E; fourth and fifth to Evinrude...
Philadelphia, Pa., April 26--Coming from behind with a sustained burst of speed, Captain J. L. Reid '29 carried his distance medley relay quartet to a second place in one of the most sensational races of the first day of the Penn Relay Carnival which started here today. Warm weather and a fast track aided the Crimson leader in covering the final mile leg in the extraordinarily fast time of 4 minutes, 21 seconds...
...Refraction and Speed of Light", Professor Black, Jefferson Laboratory...
...Refraction and Speed of Light", Professor Black, Jefferson Laboratory...