Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...
...downs which have brought showers of criticism on Coach Horween. The season just ended however; seems to have shown pretty conclusively that the Crimson is on the right track and another fall with the same coach in charge should find a definitely established system travelling along at top speed. Without doubt Coach Horween's decision must have been influenced by the wealth of more than promising material which will report to him next September Football under Horween has been generally considered a pleasure and not a grind; under such circumstances the spirit in the Crimson lamp has remained and will...
...stone was one that fell 60 years ago in Central Poland, after travelling, it is estimated, for indefinitely more than ten thousand million years at a hyperbolic speed across interstellar space. This rate was about 35 miles a second; it and the hundred thousand others that came with it in that remarkable shower overtook the earth, which was moving about 20 miles a second. In his speech, Professor Shapley said that "something of the nature of the material universe in those times before the earth and other planets were born can be determined by the study of such ancient meteoric...
...World, and his wife, sued one James Reynolds of Yonkers, N. Y., for $100,000 and $75,000 damages respectively. In 1927 the Reynolds car ran into the Swope car, injuring Mr. Swope's nose, cutting Mrs, Swope's face, making them both nervous ever since. Testifying to the speed they were going, Colyumist Heywood Campbell Broun, who was riding to dinner with the Swopes, said: "When my wife [Ruth Hale] goes over 30 miles an hour I tell her to pull down." Testifying as to whether he had feared being late for the dinner, Mr. Swope boomed: "A dinner...
...most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...