Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seagulls poised and wheeling in the hot blue sky above the Indian Ocean espied, last week, a long, low, incredibly slender ship, darting with splendid speed toward Aden, the Red Sea, Suez. A literate seagull might have spelled out upon the vessel's spume flecked prow the name H. M. S. Enterprise. Aboard and often on the bridge was a young man who is called by his Royal family simply "David." As he paced the bridge, engines of 80,000 horsepower thrust the frail 7,600-ton cruiser across the placid Indian Ocean at automobile speed: 40 m.p.h. Only...
Barrett prepared for Harvard at Worcester Academy where A. E. French Jr. '29, the retiring captain, also had his preparatory training. His speed and ability gained him a regular position at tackle on his Freshman eleven. A year ago he joined the University squad and was just gaining recognition as an outstanding line player when injuries prevented him from playing during the rest of the season. This fall his pregame performances indicated that he would be a strong factor in the success of the Crimson line. Despite his weight he was one of the fastest charging linemen who performed...
...Belmont is the name of a hotel, Belmont is the name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan, exhumed...
...minutes last week Parisians watched one of Juan de la Cierva's autogyros (TIME, Oct. 1) hang stationary in the air. The feat was possible because the autogyro can keep in horizontal flight at the remarkably low forward speed of 25 miles per hour and because it was headed, during its last week's demonstration, into a wind of just about the same speed...
...motored plane was a system of double planes, resembling box-kites fastened one to another in the general shape of the letter T. A very light and powerful petrol motor drove two light propellers at high speed. The pilot sat at the juncture of the T. On its first recognized flight (in France) that Santos-Dumont T-plane flew 220 metres in 21 seconds...