Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pressmen nodded sagely, though it is unlikely that many of them knew any more than Leverhulme's perplexed trustees about the knock out system. Knockout, in the ar got of the U. S. collegian, is a floating superlative used to qualify any object whose speed, efficiency or sex-appeal appalls rhetoric. In England the pressmen soon ascertained it is something else entirely...
With such particles "world gas" is, of course, highly elastic-about 689 billion times as elastic as air, Capt. See figured, in proportion to its density. And this elasticity, which accounts physically for the speed with which light traverses space, coupled with another property, is what (according to See) accounts for gravity and the fixture in space of heavenly bodies such as the earth, the moon, the sun. The other property is the weight of world...
There is so much of it that, light though its particles are, it weighs with a great weight upon earth, moon, sun. Against its pressure they cannot fly out of their orbits though their circling speed, imparted at birth, is not checked by the yielding mass. How strongly the world gas acts as marshal of the spheres was suggested by Capt...
...shoot an arrow from a six-foot yew-bow, to hit a golf ball, to throw a baseball, to cast a heavy fishing-slug for distance in the surf -manly exercises all. But does the missile fly farthest from rod, arm, club or bow? Which engine is superior in speed, in accuracy? A hypothetical question, surely; one that might be debated i Erewhon on Midsummer Day, with Walter Travis expatiating kindly to Amos Rusie, Izaak Walton put-tnig in a gnarled, shy word, and the laughter of Robin Hood foaming clear and soft like...
Coach Davidson of the Freshman team also favored the Smoky City team: "They can hit, and have plenty of speed, and that combination is hard to beat...