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Word: speeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caused Guest Gilbert to come over via Paris from Berlin. The Agent General's visit meant that Germany purposes to hold France and Britain to the promise recently given by their representatives at Geneva: namely that an International Finance Commission shall be set up with all appropriate speed, to readjust the whole structure of Reparations Payments (TIME. Sept. 24). However, Chancellor Churchill has long been known to favor at least temporary retention of the Reparations status quo. Therefore it was not surprising that Host Churchill kept Guest Gilbert out in the open a great deal-displaying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Readjusting Reparations | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

During the last few years the one fault of Harvard teams has been that they have not won victories. After a brief dawn of hope this year a Harvard team has again seen victory snatched from its grasp. Almost everything else this Harvard team has strength, speed, and scrappiness but victory it, as yet has not and, as every one knows, victory is the greatest of all the virtues any team can have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VICTORY | 10/27/1928 | See Source »

...scalawag building contractor who was believed, last week, to be more responsible than the suicided architect for the tragedy. When policemen dragged the contractor forth, more dead than alive, they had little trouble in extracting a confession. Apparently he had got behind his building schedule, had endeavored to speed up construction by pouring in cement before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scalawag's Cement | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...bottles of beer, 200 quarts of. champagne carefully selected from among the many which producers had fought for the privilege of presenting to them. But not for lone. In spite of zealous storm detouring, a gale blew up that rent the port stabilizer, buffeted the ship. A reduction of speed became necessary while repairs were being made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: First Air Liner | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...FRONT PAGE?"Goose him," "can." "fairy" and similar pressroom technicalities add to the speed of a dazzling play (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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