Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...battery, much has already been said. To be brief, it has everything--speed, curves, a change of pace, a drop, a fadeaway. The baseball management will supply it with gloves, a mask and a chest protector. What more could a battery want?SNAPPED IN AN INFORMAL POSE DURING FIGHT TALK MANAGER OF CRIMSON TEAM...
...from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April...
Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
...chew on last week. This was the report of the test of swift endurance, run by a stock Studebaker at Culver City, Calif. In 81 hours a four-passenger, closed model, six-cylinder car covered 5,000 miles (equivalent of six months' ordinary driving) at an average speed of 61.12 miles per hour.* No fully equipped stock car had previously been put through a 5,000-mile speed-endurance test. So Studebaker has a record...
...large advertisements last week, President E. L. Cord of the Auburn Automobile Co. stated: "AUBURN, America's Fastest Stock Car, breaks official A. A. A. 1,000-mile Stock Car Record. . . . This record was held by a Chrysler with the very creditable speed of 59.54 miles per hour, a truly remarkable performance. Auburn BREAKS this record . . . with an average of 68.37 m. p. h. . . . BUT WHAT OF IT? Great and unparalleled, as this performance is, it is ONLY INCIDENTAL with...