Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practical. U. S. citizens favor youth, speed. As against the Caronia, the President Roosevelt is younger (15 years), and faster (four hours...
...Body," the "Battle Cry of Freedom," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." There is conflict then driving the music on to another loud climax. The theme again is "America" but it is mournful and bleeding now until the third movement, "1926," takes it up again and syncopates it. Then comes speed, prosperity. Man is the slave of machines. It is the age of materialism and there must come the inevitable collapse but the "America" ideal endures and the finale is an anthem for which audiences rose to their feet, joined in the singing...
...width. Its nose encloses two water-cooled V-type, 662-h. p. engines. The fuselage has room in an 11 ft. by 17 ft. space for 20 passengers, and back of that, place for 1,000 Ibs. baggage. Wing spread is 89 ft., load capacity 7½ tons, cruising speed 150 m. p. h., high speed 175 m. p. h. It was secretly built for P. W. Chapman of Sky Lines, Inc., to carry passengers between New York and Chicago in six hours or less...
...collateral marvel of their work was the speed with which their news reached the world. As soon as they relanded at Deception Island, Captain Wilkins sent a long news despatch from the whaler Hektoria, which is standing by him. The despatch went 7,500 miles by short wireless wave to the office of the San Francisco Examiner, one of the Hearst papers financing his expedition. The Examiner and its sister papers made adequate and proper ado about their exclusive news...
...game started at top speed and continued at the same rate throughout, being marked by numerous fouls on the part of Harvard's players. The Crimson team, composed of three sophomores playing in their first University game, showed up like true veterans. The scoring combination of Captain R.H. O'Connell '29, T. G. Upton '31, J. S. Rex '31, and H. T. Wenner '30 displayed unusual coordination for a team whose only games so far have been with the second team and the Freshmen...