Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encounter between organized labor and University officials, the latter have shown themselves to be disinterested and impartial. This is an attitude worthy of Harvard, and in view of the loose talk prevalent today, it should be brought to the public's attention by some responsible agency with all possible speed. The University has observed the law and has nothing to fear from...
...Speed is one department in which Hodder is not worried. The Freshmen have displayed it frequently in games and practice sessions. It is the apparent lack of good stickhandlers which troubles him most...
...large aircraft there is more to do in the cockpit than can reasonably be expected of anybody. . . . There is a multiplicity of wheels, buttons, knobs, gadgets, instruments to be checked, landing gear. ""wing flaps, radio communication, navigation problems, fuel consumption, ground speed...
...meal and strolled back to the Club Car. He loved to sit out on the observation platform and watch the world recede into the distance at the rate of sixty miles an hour. It gave him a feeling of going places, a thrill that comes from the sense of speed and the feeling that one is utterly helpless to do anything about it save be carried along. He let himself down into the little camp chair on the platform, pulled his coat tightly around his knees to keep off the chill gusts of wind, and relaxed...
Click-click! Click-click! They were putting on speed now. Shortly the train slowed to cross the Thames, and slide into New London Station. The Vagabond thought about the boat races. Then he let his eyes drift out over the harbor, which was darkning now as the sun moved west. Soon the train was moving again, steaming for New Haven...