Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion of Stubbs that correct officiating will speed up the game and add as much to college hockey as the new offside rule added to the professional game. Incidentally he also expressed the opinion that college hockey right now didn't want the new offside rule. This seems to substantiate popular opinion. The collegiate officials are trying to open up the game just as the pros are doing but from a different standpoint. The pro magnates are throwing away some of the fine points of hockey in permitting offside play and are catering to the crowds in their attempt...
...usual, the sublime Emperor himself will write a tanka, but his will not be entered in the competition. Poems must be in by Dec. 16, will be judged at lightning speed by a competent corps of metrical experts, and the winning ten read at break of the New Year...
Whittling out duck decoys first gave Chris Smith the idea for a motorboat that would be short, broad, flat so as to ride on top of the water instead of cutting through it. This revolutionary design, now largely used in speed boats, produced the first boats to make 60 m. p. h. in a contest. In designing his early boats, Chris Smith used no blue prints. Instead, he carved out a small wooden model of the hull. With this in his pocket he went to nearby Walpole Island, picked out a likely looking tree for his boat, and carefully watched...
Among the more important of these activities are researches by Professor Dearborn and his associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...Hemenway Gymnasium tonight at 8 o'clock in the first clash of the season is small in size, but fast and shifty. B. U. will probably have a considerable advantage over the Crimson in height but the Harvard team looks smooth and aggressive with a great deal of speed...