Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan in this morning's CRIMSON, Has erred twice therein on the side of optimism. In his expectation that students will use tier better opportunity to learn from students he is running headon into a train of Harvard thought that has for the past two years been gathering greater speed in the other direction. Students at Harvard today believe, in general, that there are few time investments that pay such short interest as Conversation and Contacts. The "bull session" is dead, not of the exactness of its titling, but of a realization that it was wasted energy. There is less...
That exception is the fact that Professor Albert Abraham Michelson of the University of Chicago has very accurately calculated the speed of light. It travels 186,000 miles a second. That figure, Professor Michelson said at Washington last week, was not more than one mile from exactness. And now scientists knowing that, he proudly repeated, can at any time they please remake the Paris standard metre...
...conjunction with the new signal controls which will allow an uninterrupted cruising speed of 15 miles an hour in downtown traffic the Engineering Division will increase the number of through streets of arterial boulevards. This is the second plan of revision and should aid a great deal in preventing traffic congestion. At present there are only two through streets Commonwealth Avenue and Blue Hill Boulevard...
...Half an hour longer in the air and they would have had none left. Weather conditions were consistently bad. Flying over the Pennsylvanian Appalachians they encountered what Tucker calls the worst fog he has ever seen. For 1,000 miles they fought a head wind, which retarded their average speed some 20 miles an hour...
Utilizing almost the entire squad, the 1932 eleven swept a defenseless St. Anselm's Preparatory School team before them to roll up a 40 to 0 score. The wealth of material to be found on the Freshman squad is clearly indicated by the fact that no let up in speed or efficiency occurred while the lineup changed from first to fourth string players, and the schoolboys appeared equally weak before every combination...