Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastest team on two feet" may speed up a little more this afternoon when the once-defeated freshman lacrosse squad meets the strong Deerfield Acadmy team on the Business School field...
...among the '52 football players at this time is right end Fred Ravreby. Six foot three inch Ravreby spent the winter knocking people out of the boxing room and then started out the spring practice as a tackle. The sudden dearth, however, of right ends, plus Ravreby height and speed caused the switch to end, and here he will probably remain this fall. If he continues to improve, Fred Ravreby is the best bet among the freshmen to make the 1949 football squad...
...without the use of gears. But it also eliminates Dynaflow's one drawback: a slight feeling of "mushiness" or power wastage during acceleration. The Ultramatic overcomes this by having, in addition to the hydraulic drive, an automatic clutch which puts the car into direct drive when a certain speed is reached, thus eliminating slipping. At any speed between 15 and 55 m.p.h., the motorist can also switch from hydraulic to direct mechanical drive by momentarily raising the accelerator...
Agile Austin. On the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, an Austin convertible set a new U.S. speed record for open stock cars, a mark most auto makers are not interested in. Despite several stops for repairs (see cut), the Austin covered 11,850 miles in seven days, for an average speed of 70.54 m.p.h. (old record: 68.58 m.p.h.). A few days later, the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., did something U.S. automakers were interested in. It cut prices $1,000 on the record-setting model. The new price: $2,795 with a manually operated top, $180 more with a hydraulically operated...
...follows all the smooth old academic stereotypes. Whenever it touches on Hawthorne's writing, however, the book picks up interest at once. Of The Wives of the Dead, one of the most poignant stories in the English language, he says: "No reader of it will forget the speed with which its interior lights up and stays lit with a significance almost too delicate to name." Such stories do not date, for, as Van Doren says, they deal with timeless events, "and once Hawthorne is truly among them he is master of the simple matter they contain...