Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week two Coast Guard cutters, the Tampa, the Modoc, sailed north to play "I spy" with icebergs. They are to patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers...
...Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade for Frank Francis Frisch, famed for speed, and James Joseph Ring; Tris E. Speaker, peerless ball-hawk, has laid aside Cleveland togs after eleven years, will strive in behalf of the Washington club; lesser luminaries, too numerous to catalogue, have shifted their paid allegiance from one organization to another. The shuffling process has caused predictors...
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...first baseman of last year's nine, has been shifted to the outfield because of his ability with the willow, is filling the left vacant by the graduation of C. L. Todd '26, and is batting in the clean-up position. H. W. Burns '28, track team sprinter whose speed on the basepaths has earned him the leadoff post in the batting order holds down the center-field berth. W. B. Jones '28 completes the triumvirate of outer gardeners...
...exclaimed: "Money! The more I see of it, the less I like it. . . . Maybe I intend to take a wife." A few months later his reaction was: "I'm going to buy the biggest and best looking motor car that money will buy and drive it at whatever speed I choose right through the main street of Onawa...