Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Click! The automatic lifebelt release on the Captain's bridge hurled a belt, coated with luminous paint, into the darkness. Click! The Captain's controller whirled from Full Speed Ahead to Full Speed Astern. Twenty-eight thousand figurative horses stopped galloping forward, galloped backward. Click, click, click! The powerful searchlights of the Augustus were switched on; and, as she stopped, lifeboats were lowered from whirring davits...
Reproduction mechanics are simple: while some Bible films are projected an operator works a melodeon at a speed to make sense with the picture. More complicated and more expensive, some films will themselves operate synchronized sound machinery, such as high-class cinema houses now have for their talking pictures...
...what is called an uneventful trip. The ship (long, tall, narrow, beautiful Ile de France) lurched. There were no accidents (except for 200 chairs and 12 people which toppled upon each other at a cinema), no thefts, no speed records...
...sister ships, the longest in the world (938 feet), were launched, last week, from German yards, and will go into service late next spring for the North German Lloyd. The sisters are Europa and Bremen. Though slim and expected to challenge the trans-Atlantic speed record held by the Cunarder Mauretania, the Teuton sisters will be no lightweights (46,500 tons each). Thus they will be but little lighter than the two heaviest liners in the world: Leviathan and Majestic, which were originally Hamburg-American sister ships, but were snatched from Germany by the Allies...
...York Herald Tribune, wrote last week a brusque review of He Understood Women (see THEATRE). Then, late in the night, he got quickly into a waiting automobile, driven by his wife, and set off for the country. A car came up toward Percy Hammond at a great rate of speed, hit his auto and turned it over, causing bruises to Mrs. Hammond and more serious injuries to her husband, so that it would be necessary for him to carry his write arm in a sling. The driver of the car was an obscure character called William G. Dowrie...