Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...consideration and care of these relics. Spirited debates might be held on such subjects as whether or not the world is flat, and the exact time of Creation as determined by an hour-glass. By this method the ordinary process of law-making should attain a rate of speed almost perceptible to the naked eye, and the Records would be made light enough for six attendants to handle with ease...
Cruisers. Outstanding of the American Car & Foundry (A. C. F.) line was a new 38-ft. sport cruiser with two 110-h. p. motors and a speed of 26 m. p. h. Radio equipment was included on four of the larger A. C. F. boats...
...reason: five railroads compete for the New York to Chicago traffic; one of them on an equal speed basis with New York Central. There is no other Boston-to-Chicago railroad system...
...real believer in Democracy questions the sureness of public judgment?if the public is given the truth. . . . We can sometimes speed up [truth's] production before the ill-informed awakes to his opportunities. Facts are bad for his digestion. . . . But the truth is hard to discover. It must be distilled through the common judgment of skilled men. . . . It takes time and patience. In the meantime a vast clamor of half-truths and untruths will always fill the air and intoxicate people's emotions...
...other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward the wall as the server, after bouncing the ball, hooks it, swings it back and then forward, sending it away- then toward the players as the ball leaps back off the wall. The speed of the play is equalled only by its intricacy. The floor is marked off in 12-ft. spaces into certain of which the serve must bounce to be fair. The strength and agility required by a game where the ball moves so fast that the eye can scarcely follow it gives...