Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Youthful Germans will learn astronomy from planetaria installed in eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes that take hundreds of centuries. The gyroscopic motion of the earth (26,000 years) will be reduced to four minutes. The earth's swing around the sun (one year) will be crowded into 7.3 seconds or slowed down to seven minutes to make it easier...
...around the propeller shaft. The cylinders are cooled by the rushing air, but do not themselves revolve (as in other types of air-cooled motors). The significant qualities of the Wright J5 are lightness of weight, simplicity, durability, practical foolproof-ness. It drives almost any airplane at a contented speed of 100 m.p.h., can do 130 m.p.h., depending on the plane and flying conditions. Mr. Lawrance has recently perfected a 525-horsepower, nine-cylinder, air-cooled motor-big brother to the Wright...
...game, which was one of the fastest contests played this year at the Association, was won through Pool's speed. Pounding Baker's backhand shots, the Harvard player took the jump early in the game and retained the lead until the end of the last match. Baker's forehand was difficult for Pool to handle at times, but the University player often forced the defender into many errors on his back-hand shots...
...players have been drilling this week to improve their attack which was below par in the game with Amherst last Friday. The Crimson team lost the contest in the closing minutes of the game. At the opening of the game, the quintet looked as if it had regained the speed and scoring power that had brought victory to Harvard in the games following the Christmas recess...
What Vincent Astor's new boat will cost is variously estimated, up to $2,000,000. She has nine staterooms, eight bathrooms. Her cruising radius is 12,000. Her speed 14½ miles per hour. She requires a crew of 38. Bare running expenses for such a boat are estimated at well over $100.000 a year. Entertainment expenses can easily run the year's budget...