Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earth's annual revolution around he sun swings him in an orbit nearly 200,000,000 miles across at a speed of 18 miles per second...
Game fish have three characteristics: 1) thrilling strike, 2) great speed or spectacular leaps when hooked, 3) endurance to make long and repeated surface runs. Most popular with Atlantic anglers is the weak-mouthed weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous...
...Manhattan's General Post Office, the Mailomat is about the size of a telephone booth, performs a similar service. You put your money in one slot, your letter in another, push a lever and the letter is automatically stamped and posted. Advantages are sanitation (no licking) and speed (no waiting at a post office window, no need for the letter to be canceled...
...after he and the late Arthur Pitney formed Pitney-Bowes. Since then use of postage meters has risen until they now provide the U. S. Government with 16% of its annual postage revenue. Practically every big U. S. company has either rented or bought a Pitney-Bowes machine to speed up its mailing. Pitney-Bowes profits meanwhile have risen to $614,791 in 1937, $586,416 last year. Its stock, traded on the Curb, was only at $7.25 last week, but Founder Bowes has enough so that the annual 50?-per-share dividend enables him to indulge another expensive hobby...
...mile relay Harvard was doomed by Lightbody's tiring 880. Running in the number three spot, he handed the baton and a one-yard lead to Anchorman Torby Macdonald, who was unable to withstand the speed of Cornell's Johnny Nevius and took second...