Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera. commander of the local officers training school, and finally descended like Jupiter or Mars upon Florence, wildly cheered by 100,000 black shirts. This was no time for reticence. "Though...
...Chamber of Commerce. What he reported the Times guiltily tucked away in small type on an inside page: "As regards the situation in the town, I found it extremely quiet under a terrorism inflicted by indiscriminate shooting . . . for nearly five hours by two patrolling motor lorries running at high speed in the whole of the town, where there was any disturbance of any kind." Interjecting at this point the editor of the Times declared: "We have omitted from Mr. Hirachand's statement a paragraph in which he makes wild allegations that individuals not involved in the disturbances were deliberately...
...clock in the morning. As the bell is customarily rung only on initiation nights, he decided to investigate the case. Approaching the building, he said, he perceived a car with Connecticut license plates, and containing several occupants, bear away from the side door at a high rate of speed...
...Parker votes, named Washington's Senator Dill as the recipient of such an offer. Senator Dill explained that a private friend had said something about a judgeship but that he (Dill) considered it only a joke. California's Senator Johnson rattled off a speech against confirmation at such high speed that the galleries heard only a blur of sound. Idaho's Sena- tor Borah was in the middle of a long, involved sentence when he was cut short by the Vice President's gavel calling for the vote. Result...
Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed University of Chicago scientist (light speed), was last week discovered playing a tune he had "written several years ago for a child." The composition, "Grandpa's Lullaby," has a lively air, no words...