Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once a year the "fastest ship in the world" is taken off the transatlantic express service. In order that U. S. babbitts may dash once around the Mediterranean and back to work, the Mauretania makes that circuit every winter at a speed considerably above that of Balkan express trains...
...case of many industrious students before the war, but also they sought assistance from a general change of system, that is to say by cooperation between students with the ultimate aim of welding as large a number of students as possible into a self-supporting unit with the most speed...
...command, as there had been on the Field Museum trip and on the Smithsonian expedition of 1909. But there was this about the new expedition: It was, like the Field Museum trip, financed by a noted U. S. business man, by Walter P. Chrysler, whose low-hung, high-speed little motor cars have been darting through the land with wide acclaim in the past three years...
Last week he apparently considered himself sufficiently recovered from a series of intestinal disorders to ride horseback once more. First, his motor car roared at top speed up the Corso Umberto Primo, dashed out the Porta del Popolo, and climbed the lovely heights of the Borghese Gardens, now perhaps the most beautiful public park in Rome. There, immaculate in formal riding costume, he stepped out. His horse was led up. A crowd of Fascists cheered as he climbed into the saddle...
Later Correspondent Morley saw the same caboose, with Feng himself inside, "going through to Peking at the top speed possible nowadays on a Chinese railroad . . . about 17 miles an hour...