Word: spedding
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...have been bothered with round-the-world echoes, especially on the nine-meter wave. We have picked up short words encircling the globe several times. It takes one-seventh of a second for a word to girdle the globe. I have intercepted the word 'no' after it sped around the world several times. The trick is difficult with longer words. At times like that the world as a laboratory is too small...
...California and Iowa exhibits, the Hall of Science. At the Alaskan cabin he chatted with Musher "Slim" Williams, who drove a dogteam from Alaska to Chicago. "Mr. Hoover likes dogs," said Mrs. Hoover. "It's hard to get him away when he starts discussing them." As the party sped over the Fair lagoon. Citizen Hoover asked: "Are there any fish in it?1" At the Radio & Communications Building next day he joined a group listening to free long-distance telephone calls. Miss Ruth W. Herst of Atlantic City was talking to a friend in Philadelphia. Suddenly he heard...
Working under cover the U. S. Department of Justice sped Forest Harness to Greece as a special assistant attorney general to help press for extradition through diplomatic channels. Last week in Athens Mr. Harness firmly declared that the Greek Court of Appeals had no right to pass on the substance of the Insull indictment but only upon the legal regularity of the extradition request. In his pocket was a warrant signed by President Roosevelt for the arrest of Fugitive Insull whom Forest Harness was ready to escort home like any common crook...
Working fast, the Papal chauffeur had a new tire on in five minutes, sped to Castel Gandolfo where Pius XI inspected every appointment of the Summer Palace down to the vegetable garden, hen houses and kitchen. Early rising villagers received the Apostolic benediction. Then, still so early that socialite Romans had not yet tasted their breakfasts, the Papal motorcade whizzed back toward Vatican City. CRASH!-an Italian army plane came down out of control and cracked up in the Castel Gandolfo road, just after His Holiness had passed. By 10:15 a.m. punctual Pope Pius XI was back...
...Wolf Road, down which the sedan was racing, squad after squad of armed policemen appeared from ambush. A barricade was flung across the road, cutting off the sedan's escape. The airplane was swooping down, into machine gun range. The sedan shot into a side road, turned around, sped back over Wolf Road. Coming head-on toward it was the taxi. The sedan driver headed straight for the cab, swerved clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over...