Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilkins, flying in from the west at 700 ft. ready to land as soon as Bohnet was down. Wilkins saw the silvery monoplane about three miles ahead and 200 ft. lower in level flight. To his surprise he overtook it fast. When only a mile behind, Wilkins cut his speed in order not to pass Bohnet. Simultaneously he noticed that Bohnet was having trouble. Though the air was clear, with no turbulence whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back as the other wing dipped. The wallow grew worse. While Wilkins...
...Franklin. Roosevelt has the smartest political brain in the U. S., there is no doubt Manuel Quezon has the smartest political brain in the Philippines. Last week Señor Quezon's brain was visiting the U. S., working full speed while its owner was busy in Washington with the Interdepartmental Committee on Philippine affairs. For Mr. Quezon was putting a very delicate case to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Brigadier General Creed F. Cox, Chief of the Bureau of Insular Affairs, Paul...
...results of another survey, including observations of the traffic in Harvard Square, will be released shortly after the spring recess. These observations will be of various sorts; for example, the number of people who stop at the flashing red-lights behind the fire station will be counted; the speed of vehicles on Massachusetts Avenue will be computed and averaged by photo-electric cells and by pads on the street itself...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...
...burst of speed and skillful grappling, and displaying top form of the season, five members of the Freshman squad swept all but three titles in the University Wrestling Championships at the Indoor Athletic Building...