Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winthrop's winning touchdown cause on a wide end sweep to the left, with Joseph A. Hindle '36, who shapes up as the speed boy of the league, carrying the ball. Winthrop and Dunster both came near scoring several times more, Dunster's best try being on an 80 yard run by John D. Barnes '37 who was nailed on the five yard line by Walter Dub. Brookings '37. The half ended before further scoring chances were possible...
Also last week, Imperial Airways ordered the first of a new fleet of 18-ton flying boats from England's Short Brothers Ltd. Four-motored, high-winged monoplanes with a speed of about 200 m.p.h., the new transports are expected to make actual by 1937 the program announced in Parliament last December of carrying all Great Britain's first-class mail to & from India, Africa, Singapore and Australia...
...entirely by blind instinct, but apparently have their own system of avigation. The secret is supposedly in the ear, since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record for homing pigeons is 2,150 mi. (Maine to Texas) at a speed of 700 mi. per day. The sport of racing homing pigeons, introduced in the U. S. about 1875, is still popular in Belgium, where nearly every village has its Societe Colombophile. The annual concourse national-Toulouse to Brussels (500 mi.)-was inaugurated in 1881, and similar races were sponsored by the London...
Since human beings are creatures of infinite adaptability, they make themselves comfortable and thrive in torrid and frigid zones, on mountains and in prairies. Skillfully they adjust themselves to the slowness of farm life, to the speed of great cities. But medical authorities say that men do not adapt themselves to ceaseless din. In New York City recently an insistent band of noise-haters has tried to get the clamors of their metropolis abated. Last week loud Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia headed those noise-haters and ordered his policemen to compel a measure of silence in Manhattan. Policemen gave particular...
...Harlow and his staff have not allowed the highly touted invaders to disturb their steady striving for polish and dash in execution of the rudiments of the game. Drill for speed was prominent yesterday, and no matter what the result is on Saturday, it is certain that the future will see a team showing persistent improvement in the game...