Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier roses, sweet peas and mignonettes were delivered to the White House with speed, when enterprising British florists sought to test the transatlantic radio-phone service...
...push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...answers back to the U. S., pondered them well. Then, for two years, Studebaker engineers and body designers pored over blueprints, utilized proving grounds-and produced the Erskine Six. It is a small car (no smaller than an Overland Whippet). It is low-hung; has a small, high speed, high compression motor; "2 1/3 litres," the advertising says - which is the Parisian way of saying that a motor is 40 horsepower...
...Freshman team showed speed in its mile relay with the Holy Cross first year men, but finished 18 yards behind its opponents who ran a front race for honors. V. L. Hennessey '30, in the opening laps, made the outstanding Crimson bid of the race fighting at his racer's shoulder the entire quarter of a mile...
...Ward '30 at right forward and H. L. Waterman, rangy center, will be expected to carry the attack into alien territory. Ward possesses speed and accuracy, and has shown up well in previous games. D. W. LaRue has starred at the right guard position...