Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norfolk, the Fleet's holiday mood changed to one of anxious preparation. Fueling started at emergency speed to fill all the Fleet's tanks and bunkers in three days instead of the normal twelve. Guessing that they might be bound much farther west than California, perhaps to Pearl Harbor or beyond, commissary officers laid in for their crews a six-week supply of fresh milk, fresh vegetables, including tons of spinach. And orders were to unship all old ammunition, take aboard new. Gunners knowingly noticed that the new projectiles for their big guns were colored differently from target...
That mistake was to cater to Ghazi's love of speed. As a child he rode Arab racing stallions. Sent to be educated at England's Harrow, he learned how to dismantle a high-compression engine before he learned to speak good English. Far too young (12) for a British driving license, he got special permission to roar around Brooklands racing track all by himself. Back in Iraq, he bought one flashy car after another-among others a supercharged, 150-horsepower Auburn with three-inch royal crowns on its doors, a Mercedes done in phosphorescent paint. Before long...
Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...
Died. Ghazi ibu Feisal. 27. second King of Iraq (first: his late, famed father Feisal, placed on the throne by Great Britain in 1921 at the instance of "Lawrence of Arabia"); near Bagdad; in an automobile accident. Ghazi loved speed, had a Mercedes coated with phosphorescent paint, a U. S. Auburn, a plane fitted for acrobatics. No. 1 feat of his 5-year reign: holding a balance between Arabs in his kingdom (about the size of California) who esteem Britain, hate Britain (and rioted after Ghazi's death). Heir: his 4-year-old son Feisal, under the regency...