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Word: speeding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling at "terrific speed", State Police, who are investigating the case, said last night. Wheeler's bicycle was found three quarters of a mile away from the site of the crash. Apparently the driver turned into a side road at this point and removed the wrecked bike from his front bumper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Student Killed Bicycling Way to Game | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Harvard's undefeated harriers will match speed and staying power against Yale and Princeton at New Haven this afternoon in their climax meet, while Coach Jack Carr's booters will meet an unbeaten and powerful Nassau soccer team at Tigertown tomorrow evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAYVEE, YARDLING ELEVENS TO SEE ACTIN AS HARRIERS, SOCCER TEAM PERFORM AWAY | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

COPENHAGEN, Denmark--The captured American freighter City of Flint, in command of a Nezi prize crew, tonight was reported racing at full speed through Great Britain's naval blockade off the southern coast of Norway in an attempt to reach a German port...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 11/3/1939 | See Source »

Psychologists tell us that war, depression, crime, labor troubles, and race prejudice have their roots in mental processes. But they have been loath to apply their convictions to the correction of social error. Rather they have chosen to measure intelligence, the speed with which rats learn how to thread a maze in order to reach food and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scientific Scrapbook | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...down) on a night when there was "the most extraordinary display of Northern Lights I have seen in 15 years at sea." He said: "I was lying in very close to shore and several cars passed. One stopped for a moment, then turned about and rushed back at full speed. . . . These people must have seen me-nobody else could have in the shadow of the shore line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Scapa & Forth | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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