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...Department of Agriculture, braved duck gunners' indignation. She announced that wild fowl speeds had been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts of 180 m. p. h. pursuing prey. Other bird speeds...
...some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
Nervously the U. S. Chamber of Commerce of Buenos Aires cabled pleas for swiftest possible recognition, seemed to fear that Great Britain would recognize Revolutionist Uriburu first. Under previous and pro-British President Irigoyen, British businessmen enjoyed many an Argentine Government favor, had a distinct edge over U. S. competition...
Millions of U. S. citizens had ears at the opening of the London Naval Conference, but barely twoscore had eyes. Radio voices can leap the Atlantic, but not yet radio vision. Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime...
...child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those who make American motion pictures, the applause of the children is swiftest and most enthusiastic...