Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speed, speed!" he said. "That is the key which shall unlock all the knowledge to us."to as he sped off to a conclusion which left science far behind...
...supposed the case of an aviator able to fly at a speed equal to Earth's rotation (roughly, 1,000 m.p.h. midway between Poles and Equator). If the flyer flew against the rotation of the earth, from east to west, he would keep pace with the sun, remaining constantly at the o'clock when he started. Going the other way, eastward, he would pass a whole day in 12 hours...
...Promotion of Aeronautics, joint backer with the U. S. Department of Commerce of Colonel Lindbergh's tour, announced a new policy: to lend money to U. S. passenger air lines to help them buy "the most modern, multi-engined airplanes of maximum safety and comfort" and thus speed the arrival of the day when engaging a sky-parlor car seat from Chicago to Denver, New Orleans or New York, and back, will be as little a novelty as it already is for a Parisian to slip over to London or Berlin for dinner...
...Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...
...automobile started to run the horse out, Hank Armstrong (Russell Simpson) found himself hitched to the stable cause, while his son, Bob (Charles E. Mack*), trailed the new-fangled enemy. Only after Barney Oldfield (who appears in the film) has roared over a race track at the unprecedented speed of 60 miles per hour, and Sloe Eyes, his last mare, has taken her final earthly hurdle, does the old horse-lover give in to the conquering gas-buggy. By that time his son has grown romantic under the influence of the heroine (Patsy Ruth Miller) and returned to the horse...