Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Hovgaard, the technical adviser of the Court, recommended: that in future dirigibles be thicker in proportion to their length; that the control car be built into the ship's hull instead of depended from it; that if possible the engine cars be similarly placed; that the speed of dirigibles be increased to enable them to escape storms; that more mooring masts be set up, and better weather reports instituted for air navigation...
...Colonial Air Transport Corporation, set out last week to find out how swiftly a commercial aircraft could make the 300-mile run from Miami, Fla., to Havana, Cuba. Arrived at Havana, two hours and five minutes after leaving Miami, Mr. Fokker announced that their average speed of 144 miles an hour constituted a record for a non-stop flight of such length by a commercial airplane...
Isadore Zarakov '27 has been practicing for several days and has been showing his customary speed. He may get into the play at one wing for a short time tonight...
...doubt whether this picture has the speed or the balance of "Charley's Aunt", but it is good for a great many laughs nevertheless...
When "Madame Bovarv", the "Egolst", "Pere Goriot" can be treated adequately in fifteen minutes the world will have grown so avil speed that no alternative to this writing of radio povelettes will be allowed the author. Until then it is evident that the aspirant for real literary honors must strive for something more than can be crowded into fifteen minutes and stuffed into the ears of people waiting in bear stock reports or the best jazz hand...