Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Observatory is now making a specialty of the study of the movement of the stars. The question which Observatory astronomers are seeking to settle is: Why do the stars move, and what natural law if any gives them a goal and a rate of speed...
...soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will love it; firm-minded moderns will squirm. Mr. Cohan himself appears; acts a little, sings a little, does a little dance...
...cranky, fussy thing. Like cranky, fussy old men, it makes a great to-do over its middle parts. While the motor functions regularly and the wheels go round obediently, the gears between them demand constant nursing. Before the car can run smoothly, these gears must be coaxed from first speed to second, then to third, and in some makes, even into a fourth forward speed. Before they will yield to coaxing, the clutch must be pushed down and let up, the foot accelerator released and pressed down again and the shift lever wiggled about delicately. In addition to causing heavy...
This is because-Ford has ceased firing until he can get his big gun trained on the shifted target of public opinion. It has moved in the direction of racy lines, snappy colors, manual gear shift, speed. It will be 1928 before Ford has tested his product sufficiently well to allow it to re-enter into the conflict...
...special engine, the first of its kind every built in this country, has been purchased, and will be used for the experiment projected by the Engineering School. This engine, remarkable or its high potential speed, is of German invention. The problem facing engineers at present is to get higher speed and less weight, and the achievement of this end would make diesel airplane engines practical...