Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...them from economic disadvantage. Yet Statesman Stimson felt he must not act too promptly lest color be lent to the rumors that the U. S., ill-favored in the Argentine under the regime of ousted President Irigoyen, had encouraged and perhaps abetted his overthrow. Statesman Stimson combined suavity with speed last week by simply including the week-old Argentine government in an announcement recognizing the new governments of Peru (three weeks old) and Bolivia (three months old). Almost simultaneously the London Foreign Office announced that its relations with Argentina remained unbroken. Statesman Stimson had run a dead heat with Great...
...great bay horse in a red hood, with a white blaze on his nose, moving around a curve, down a midway, in a seemingly effortless gallop of matchless speed and strength; a jockey in a scarlet cap and white shirt splashed with great red polka dots?all season this has been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold...
Best means for such pitch dissemination would be the radio. The phonograph is unreliable since the slightest variation of the turntable from set speed (78 revolutions per min.) changes the pitch. The veracity of tuning-forks depends upon atmospheric and temperature constancy. Dr. Haselbrunner's convention would put a stop to an occasional practice of recording laboratories, namely, varying the pitch to fit the peculiar abilities of recording artists, a practice distressing to persons with a sense of absolute pitch...
...derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged and lay down or remembered something and went back. A few plodded on to the outer line of the circle. First across, and winner of $7,100 was Goober Dust, owned by Mrs. Cora M. Day of Ponca City. Second prize, $1,250, went to an anonymous...
...week was a comparison of the two feats-Lindbergh's & Coste's. Lindbergh, alone in a Ryan monoplane powered by a 200 h. p. Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza...