Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...each stroke. This freak style he developed two years ago on New Jersey's Rancocas Creek, hard by his father's fruit farm, after rowing in orthodox fashion on the University of Pennsylvania crew. He can row for miles at 40, can maintain a speed of 12 miles an hour over a mile and a quarter course. Last year, after running away with the U. S. and Canadian sculling championships with machine-like ease, oarsmen dubbed him the "rowing robot," marveled at the power of his arms. But his brawny arms are nothing compared to his perseverance...
Seven years of experiment have gone into radiotype. Test machines are now typing through the air at racing speed, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." And Division Manager Lemmon expects to have marketable equipment by year...
...first 500 ft. were like a "knife through cheese." There the driller switched to a 15¼-in. bit. At 9,500 ft., drilling speed had dropped to a foot an hour, and a new bit was needed every 25 ft. At 11,600 ft., the mud pressure was 9,000 lb. per sq. in. Apparently this huge force squeezed the water out of the mud into a porous sand formation at that depth, so that the mud caked and "froze" the bit collar. The drill pipe was fished out with difficulty but the collar was immovable. By means...
...about to send down the ways a $200,000, seagoing sampler of his seagoing notions. Light (70 tons), fast (26 knots), she was powered by three engines totaling 2,000 horsepower, to be replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...
Scientists are now generally agreed that the earth rotates on its axis, and the speed of rotation has been accurately measured. Nevertheless, Sister Mary's pendulum will be something more than a mere exhibition. Since a pendulum's rate of oscillation depends on the force of gravity at the point where it operates, it will keep a constant record of the force of gravity for the Chicago area...