Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wily, hard-running coyote or "Mexican Wolf." At first the new quarry proved too fast, too long-winded for their hounds. Huntsmen sent back to Kentucky for dogs of the famed Walker and Trigg stock, soon bred a hound which could more than match the coyote's speed and stamina...
...owned by Paul Johnson of Liberty Hill, took the grand championship. Inexperienced, she made no showing in the field trials of the next three days, in which judges picked a 3-year-old gyp named Keno, owned by Robert Spurgeon Guyness of Poteet, as best of the 257 in speed, endurance, skill in trailing and driving...
...Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers to divine the speed of horses. Yet there lay danger. The slightest alteration might impair Oiwin's magic, hilariously tested at so many box offices...
...Philadelphia indictment, while not entirely unexpected, had come with unusual speed in the wake of a flying squad of Congressional investigators. The case concerned the State's oldest (incorporated in 1807) and largest (assets of $132,000,000) guaranteed mortgage company, The Philadelphia Co. for Guaranteeing Mortgages, which collapsed in 1933 and is not to be confused with the venerable Pennsylvania Co. for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities. At the time Philadelphia Co. F. G. M. went under, its officials prepared the receivership petition, took it to the home of a Federal judge in Easton, Pa., secured appointment...
...reporting the fall of forty-five odd students in the past two days, all struck down by a mysterious digestive disorder, the University hygiene officials are at a loss to explain the sudden advent of plague in the college. For although the victims have recovered with almost as much speed as they were taken ill, the infection has defied the best medical detectives, and despite the care with which the University surrounds the preparation of food, the causes of the plague remain unfathomed...