Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Next morning President Hoover summoned Indiana's Senator Watson, Senate Majority Leader, to breakfast. They talked tariff, puzzled out vain stratagems to speed up the Senate's action. Back at the Capitol Senator Watson spoke: "The President thinks that this [tariff] legislation should be disposed of quickly in the interest of the business of the country and in order that other matters may be brought before this body for solution." Up rose Mississippi's Democratic Harrison to inquire sarcastically of Senator Watson just which rates the President favored?the high rates of the Old Guard, the medium rates...
...dogs pointed but no one would shoot over them unless it was requested by the judges. The single shot fired at the trials is to prove that the dog is not gun-shy. A bird dog's superiority is gauged by the excellence of his nose, brains, speed, range, style, courage and endurance...
...107th Cavalry is one of the most formidable teams in the Middle West, the University riders will be forced to go at top speed to win. The lineup will be as follows: Cooke, No. 1: Jenkins, No. 2: and Luton, back...
...move and think at his first glimpse of his opponent's bulk. For a round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat on his shoulders, and stayed there while the referee counted ten. This was in Newark, N. J. Jubilant, Carnera returned to the Park Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, broke two chairs...
...show their ability. Sonja Henie had come from Norway and had been practicing in Manhattan for five weeks in preparation for her five minutes (TIME, Jan. 20). As she ran through the gate and started diagonally across the ice in the sprint that gave her speed it was clear that she was nervous. Once she slipped, brushed the ice with her fingertips, caught her balance, smiled and flushed, and after that she was at ease. Her whirls, waltzes, glides and rockers, executed to such tunes as "Over the Waves" and "The Skaters" were technically perfect and filled with...