Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
Seven weeks ago, Secretary of State Kellogg was pleased to hear that Senor Adolfo Diaz had been elected President of Nicaragua by that republic's congress in joint session. With startling speed he sent U. S. recognition to President Diaz, a Conservative, an oldtime friend of the U. S. Department of State, who was recently employed by a U. S. mining company for a few dollars per week. Headline readers in the U. S. said: "Isn't it nice that those Nicaraguans are fixed up at last?" But shrewder observers in Washington and all of Central America knew...
...Negro was visited a night later. Hooded men tied his hands and feet together; where his hands and feet came to a point behind his back they fastened another rope, took a turn around the rear axle of an automobile and started off at full speed down the road. The dragged body was torn beyond recognition. He had been accused of stealing turnip seed...
...faced gentleman sat reading a handful of clippings about Nicaragua (see p. 8). The lean, thoughtful gentleman went on reading, and the tall prince waited. Then, since loutish railwaymen failed to tell the President of the U. S. that Prince Chichibu waited, the presidential special coasted through Baltimore, gathered speed and vanished, while the President read on, oblivious...
German Boats. For delivery two years hence, North German Lloyd last week ordered two 46,000-ton boats built. They will enter the Bremen-Manhattan service and make their runs in six days, speed comparable to that of the Leviathan...