Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slackened its pace slightly. Twelve hours later, the exhausted mechanics pronounced the task hopeless; the Hispano was flagged down to receive the news that the Stutz had been forced to withdraw. The foreign invader had traveled 1,357½ miles in 17 hours, 21 minutes, maintaining an average speed of 70.14 miles per hour. The old stock car record, made last October at Atlantic City by a Studebaker, of 1,814.96 miles in 24 hours, with an average of 75.6 miles per hour, remained unbroken...
Reeling Atoms. Probably the most notable paper at this "most notable symposium" was the report of Professor William Draper Harkins, University of Chicago chemist. Fourteen years ago C. T. R. Wilson discovered that atoms shot at high speed through a gas, may be made to leave visible trails. Since then Professor Harkins has been trailing helium atoms. He has been busily exploding chunks of "thorium C" and other radioactive substances which shoot off atoms at the mad speed of 12,000 miles per second...
...mile trip, slightly south of the North Pole on the Greenland side over a region never before seen by articulate man, particularly beckoned to Capt. Wilkins. He finally made it in 20½ hours of flying time, in a small Lougheed Vega plane capable of a sustained speed of 135 miles an hour. His record indicates that he would have made the trip had it taken forever...
...message was countersigned by President-emeritus T. A. D. Jones. Lampwick is the Blue's stellar performer with the Anglo-Saxon idiom. "We're just an eensty bit glad," confessed "Speed" Copeland, Crimson draught-kicking mentor...
Although arrangements for the new speed boat have not as yet been completed it probably will be similar to "Red Top" and will be approximately 27-feet long. The order will be sent to Greenport, Long Island next week...