Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...back as it went and keeping a position slightly beneath the surface of the water. The action resembling that of a swimmer as he turns on his back to float. The other whale well in the rear and swimming back up, would suddenly put on a burst of speed-full ahead, both engines-- as he ploughed a snowy, straight-as-an-arrow furrow through the Prussian-blue sea, which brought him swiftly forward to form that perfect, blissful contact with his mate...
...When the muscles are working so fast that they cannot get enough oxygen for their recovery process," Dr. Dill explained, "lactic acid accumulates in them and leaks out into the blood, producing or tending to produce exhaustion. We placed DeMar on our horizontal treadmill, geared to a speed of 9.3 kilometers an hour, and found that the amount of exhaust acid he had accumulated at the end of twenty minutes was almost negligible...
Slow Glide. At Roosevelt Field last week, Pilot Clarence D. Chamberlin and his Crescent cabin ship demonstrated that a skilled pilot in a reasonably stable plane can glide the plane at dangerous stalling speed to land more slowly than a man drops in a parachute...
Exciting to the public are flights which break such obvious world records as speed, altitude, duration, distance. More satisfying to manufacturers and operators are less spectacular, technical records such as the two which U. S. flyers broke last month and the one which Boris Sergievsky broke last week. Last month it was Pilots Zimmerly and Schoenhair who, flying Barling and Lockheed Vega ships, respectively set new world records for altitude and speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long...
...Speed's Sake. It takes a very special sort of nerve to fly 300 m.p.h. Because he possesses such nerve, and because it was anxious to fly faster than the rest of the world, the U.S. Navy permitted big, hard-boiled Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., to stay on special duty from 1923, when he won the Pulitzer race and set a U.S. speed record, until last week. After hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons...