Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed two bills designed to enable the Government to speed up action in criminal and civil suits against onetime Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall and others who had their fingers in the Teapot Dome. (Went to the President who signed them.) ¶ Cleared away its bulky business and adjourned simultaneously with the Senate, not to meet again until...
...animals. I can feel the future as it approaches. Some instinct guides and warns me. My blood speaks! I must listen to my blood." Thus Signor Mussolini is wont to explain the promptings of his extraordinary political intuition- promptings which he has ever translated into action with disconcerting speed. Last week these sanguinary omens may be presumed to have fired his brain afresh. While most Italians slept he harangued a meeting of all but one of his ministers. By morning a sheaf of Cabinet decrees were issued which bade fair to alter the whole course of daily life in Italy...
...passengers whom the air leviathan could whisk across the Atlantic in 36 hours. There would be six huge pontoons for landing, if necessary, on the sea, and in these a crew of 25 mechanics would be berthed. Tons of trunks and fuel for 16 hours of top-speed flying were provided with stowage and lifting power. From control cabins in the wing tips the pilots would set their course from Europe first to the Azores, thence...
...Junior University boat paddled two miles downstream. On the return, Coach Brown called for speed, and the entire distance was rowed at a beat of 32 or slightly better. While Coach Brown is pleased with the finish and coordination of his oarsmen he is not yet satisfied with their power. He accordingly intends to concentrate on drawing them out to their fullest strength. Another time trial this week for the Seconds is well within the range of possibilities...
...with a barometer in his front hall. Where earthquakes are concerned, predictions and precautions are much harder to disseminate and to take in time, and the results of unpreparedness are much more serious. Scientific laboratories have seismographs and report temblors to the newspapers with all possible speed, but people in California, Hawaii, Japan would be far better off if they could have seismographs in their front halls. More often than not the earth's major convulsions take place within a few hours of the first warning quiver. It was just such an instrument that Dr. Thomas A . Jaggar reported...