Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Sun, old Munsey paper, still keeps the NO SMOKING rule. Keats Speed, managing editor of the Sun, has added another prohibition. Paper shall not be cast upon the floor, but shall be placed in wastebaskets. Noiseless typewriters, too, are replacing the old machines. Said Mr. Speed: "All normal men hate noise and mess; I loathe them both...
...special smoking room, in which Mr. Speed and reporters, off-duty smokers, smoke...
...later, the Count Zeppelin took 82 people on a longer trip, 620 miles, over southern Germany and Switzerland. She performed so splendidly that the flight was as lazy and as delightful as an afternoon on an ocean liner in calm weather. Yet, at one time, she stepped up her speed to 81 m.p.h. Over Heidelberg, she cast her shadow on pigmy castles and at Stuttgart solemnly circled the grave of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. Wine, ham and eggs, etc., were served above Freiburg, Baden-Baden and Constance. But there was NO SMOKING, for fire is the arch enemy of airships...
...qualities of stability possessed by this unique craft. Having completed the professoriat demonstration Prof. A. A. Merril of the Daniel Guggenheim Graduate School of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena) would climb into his "Flying Pickle" and proceed to demonstrate that his invention could range in speed from 45 to 105 miles per hour, take off, land, climb, descend, balance itself, without the pilot so much as touching the controls...
...Grant Jr. '29, G. L. Graves '31, A. W. Huguley '31, G. C. Holbrook '30, and T. G. Moore '29, all capable and mostly experienced material Graves has been doing particularly well so far this fall. He is a short stocky back with plenty of speed and fight, the type that makes a yard or so after he has been hit from all sides. He needs experience but otherwise should make trouble for opposing linemen this fall. Holbrook was among the most promising of last year's new material but an injury to his knee kept him out of active...