Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German V2, with its warhead replaced by the small, U.S.-developed "WAC Corporal" rocket. When the combination reached a certain height (the Army did not say how high), the WAC Corporal was fired by electronic control. It zipped out of the V-2's nose added its own speed to that of the V2, and reached 5,000 m.p.h. The empty V-2 fell 20 miles from the firing place; the WAC Corporal was tracked by instruments, apparently fell about 80 miles north of White Sands. Four days later, it had not yet been found...
...Commuters had a slight edge on speed, but Lowell's smooth teamwork was the deciding factor in the see-saw contest. The game was a series of up-and-down breaks with Lowell staving off a desperate Dudley charge at the final whistle...
...Elephants get off to a bad start and didn't hold the lead once until they won the game with a last minute goal. Farwell Smith, the standout player for Eliot, made up for his unpolished skating by speed and spirit rare in intramural hockey...
Davey will undoubtedly be missed on Soldiers Field this spring and next fall. Valpey gives him "a great deal of credit for the speed with which we installed the single wing last fall," and his observation from the Stadium roof during games made him a key man in the Crimson strategic services...
Robert Nathan's "Portrait of Jenny" manages to express a complex idea in such simple terms that its artistic virtuosity is often overlooked. Nathan's main character is a timeless, ethereal creature, sometimes real and sometimes so strange that her reality seems dubious. She grows up at her own speed, appears and disappears at will. Her sense of time is unusual; she remembers events of fifty years ago in terms of yesterday and she knows in strange and unexplicable ways the partial shape of the future...