Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew has rowed two brief time trials in front of the Newell boathouse to test the comparative speed of the Pocock shell which it rowed in the triangular race, and the new Lutz boat. They rowed a little more than a third of a mile each time, first in the Pocock and then in the Lutz, and they rowed the distance about a second faster in the latter shell...
...happened to be the latter event staged by a battalion from the United States Ship Florida, the fastest battleship in our fleet since it recently attained the terrific speed of 22.32 knots a record for battleships in the United States Navy. Invading Soldiers Field, 350 men strong, the battalion quickly prepared for the exercises which served the double purpose of perfecting it in the open order of drill of which it had but a slight taste recently in Guantanamo and of acquainting Naval Science students in the University with a first hand knowledge of the tactics and manocuvres...
...idle dreamer, Mr. Wood is shrewd enough to boom the fat daily as a necessary corollary to his new high-speed printing and feeding machinery. He is one of those manufacturers who take pride in combining the appearance of an English aristocrat with an up-to-the-moment knowledge of aeronautics, yachting, advertising, printing...
...mature prima donna who by dint of some rapid fire acrobatics falls swooning into the hero's arms just as the curtain is lowered on polite but not too frenzied applause. And the hero--well, the hero is handicapped by the royal trousers, which were built for style, not speed...
...Burns '28 found both the Maine catchers to his liking, and added three stolen bases to his long list of thefts. The fleet center fielder pilfered second and third in succession in one inning. Jones, too, showed his speed by committing larceny of the rubber plate that marks home on Soldiers Field...