Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of skating down the ice at full speed, the usual method on a penalty shot, Harding carried the puck down beyond the blue line slowly, came to a full stop for a moment, and then whipped the puck past Goding on a hard knee-high shot that just caught the corner of the net. From then on the puck was in Dartmouth territory most of the time, with the Hoddermen trying desperately to tie up the score...
When questioned after the ordeal, Hyde grumbled about the speed at which he and Edmunds had to read palms. "Why, back in Minneapolis, where I come from, nobody wants palms described in a hurry. Often-times I dawdle 30 or 40 minutes over a women's hand-reading it, that...
...than for any other kind of food. The trend-watchers must have thought that fact particularly significant, just as significant as the fact that Harvard University has discovered that its students are growing taller at the rate of one inch every 32 years. It things keep moving at that speed, Harvard boys will soon be men. -"The Dartmouth...
...players were given loosening up work and light throwing and then subjected to a short batting drill with the pitchers tossing them, in at half speed. Regular Varsity team men from last year reporting for the first team were outfielders Bob Gannett, Rud Hoye, and Jo-Jo Soltz, and infielder Dick Grondahl. Last year's Freshman regulars include Jim Tully, Fred Keyes, and Charlie Davis...
...Thunder is the result of a pressure wave caused by the sudden expansion of air created by a quick lightning discharge. All flashes do not release energy with the same speed. ... In some cases the electrical current is built up and released slowly; that is, in one or two tenths of a second as compared to millionths of a second in other discharges. This so-called slow lightning produces no thunder...