Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the game with M. I. T. the team has shown considerably more speed. During the few remaining practice sessions before the games, team work and shooting will be especially emphasized...
...with their human background always gives men strength in combat, just as a tendency to individualism weakens them. The boy who can feel that it is his Alma Mater bucking the line, and not he, is worth more on the gridiron than his fellow of even greater strength and speed who in his subconscious represents only himself. This explains why certain institutions, often with scanty or inferior material, have the habit of turning out winning football tean's. With all due salaams to Bill Roper, it explains why Princeton has that habit...
...several fine instruments developed during the later months of the War, drops several depth bombs (much less powerful in submarine warfare than publicity led people to believe) finally with definite knowledge that the sub is still intact the paravane is streamed. The destroyer works up to speed (about four to five times the possible speed of a submarine under water) circles the area, crosses it several times, makes a shamrock course within the circle thus covering completely the whole area while the submarine is crossing it. It does not matter what depth the submarine is running the paravane is beneath...
...avid eye of Decoratrix Seal. She has torn down old houses besides building new ones and adapting odd ones. She has lived thoughtfully enough to know that "simplicity" must never mean discomfort. Aesthetically the book parallels the current literary renaissance of early America. If widely read, it should speed the arrival, in districts beyond New England, Philadelphia and Baltimore, of styles in architecture and decoration which, once indigenous, were successively entombed by the brownstone, red-plush, cupola, stucco, Frank Lloyd Wright and Grand Rapids eras...
...Speed was no object for they had 2,060 miles to go; getting there, from Hampton Roads, Va., to Colon, Panama, was the main thing. None the less, the two big seaplanes vanished over the southern horizon seven minutes apart, droning for Cape Hatteras at a smart 80 knots or so. The destroyer Overton, the minesweeper Sandpiper and cruiser Saukee, strung down the Atlantic and stationed off Cuba, turned on their searchlights as dusk fell, tilted their beams at agreed angles into the drizzly night. The cruisers Raleigh and Cincinnati and the minesweeper Swan, stationed at intervals in the Caribbean...