Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France there is only one current guillotine knife, although there are many scaffolds. Therefore M. de Paris has to travel, sometimes to Marseilles to decapitate a taker of virginities, sometimes to Rouen to speed a parting fratricide. He is a traveling salesman of Death. His salary until last week was a paltry...
TIME acknowledges with gratitude the comment of Subscriber Lawson and 26 other subscribers upon the speed with which its post-election issue was produced and delivered. To Printer R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co. and the U. S. Postal Service, all praise...
...noon Sunday Captain Carey ordered half speed, according to Engineer Adams, alternating from port to starboard engines...
...Cruiser A is capable of developing high speed which will enable it to avoid conflict with a superior force. It is vastly superior to the ordinary 10,000-ton cruisers and would be a dangerous adversary of a full-sized battleship. Its armament surpasses that of our old ships of the line...
Latest and most spectacular of all Opel experiments is the low, winged rocket car. Inventor Valier, Builder Sanders, tried it secretly last April over the Opel tracks in Munich. But in June, young Fritz von Opel, sporting son of a gruff Geheimrat, sent it at a speed of 156 miles per hour over railroad tracks near Hanover. Nine-foot streaks of flame from the exploding rockets trailed its deafening roar. A solitary cat, its only passenger, trembled. Suddenly it skipped the track; the remaining rockets blew up; cat and car burst into a thousand blazing fragments. Spectators cried, "Devil...