Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...States. I nearly fell off my comfortable and well balanced chair (and the whole phrase is meant literally) when I opened up the Nov. 12 issue of TIME this afternoon and found the complete election results, covered in your usual highly interesting style. That was an example of real speed on your part?speed I had not thought probable. TIME certainly makes full use of time...
...last week flew up & down for demonstration flights at the Bristol, Pa., airport of the Keystone Aircraft Corp., its builders. It is a high wing monoplane with three Wright Cyclone 525 h.p. motors that can carry it and a 7½ ton load at 130 m. p. h. cruising speed, at 155 m. p. h. high speed. In its cabin is one stateroom with a sleeping compartment, and seats for 20 passengers and two pilots. Keystone's President Edgar N. Gott named it the Patrician...
...keep the length parallel with the direction of the wind. This swiveling is essential because planes can properly land or take off only against the wind. The platform also tilts up or down. The departing plane can coast down it; the arriving plane must roll up, constantly losing speed until it stops. Spring cables along the platform also retard the speed of the landing plane...
...fact that her student body is the most indifferent and her alumni the most cohesive and enthusiastic band of persons to be met with in collegiate circles. This change takes place, at the earliest, after three years of absence from the Yard and it is ladle to try and speed up a development which has all the symptoms of a natural process. Those devoted to collecting the back debts of the University would do well to admit the paradox and refrain from killing by forced cultivation a plant that will shortly grow to luxuriant productivity by itself...