Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Leonid meteors, advance guards of a main swarm which appears three times a century, should be looked for in the eastern part of the sky. The shower may last three or four nights. Dr. Fisher stated, and pictures will be taken at the observatory to determine the speed of the meteors and whether they are pieces of a live or dead planet. On November 16, 1929 about ten Leonids were counted during three of the early morning hours...
...engineers as well as undergraduates in the School, is a movement on the part of the Harvard Engineering School intended to acquaint its students with an understanding of the physical and mathematical basis of mechanical vibration, so that they may handle the problems related to the ever increasing size, speed, and power now developing in the engineering world. Vibration problems are growing in importance in the design of high-speed machinery, but the problem has been neglected in most American engineering schools, although well established in the Institutions of Europe...
...Walter Camp's all-America team. Maulbetsch was one of two backs that Michigan has had within the last 25 years who was a consistent ball carrier; the other was Jimmy Craig, brother of Ralph Craig, double winner of the Olympic sprint events. Jimmy had almost as much speed as Ralph and he was a most elusive gent when he found himself in a broken field...
Died. Joseph Boyer, 82, board chairman of Burroughs Adding Machine Co inventor of the pneumatic hammer, a drill, railway speed recorder; of pneumonia; in Detroit, Mich...
...director, with the help of the company's best dialog writers, Laurence Stallings and Charles MacArthur, has deliberately turned back to the old westerns as models in an attempt to reproduce the virtues that have reappeared only occasionally in pictures since the western became outmoded-speed, action, outdoor settings, and the suspense of the greatest and simplest of all plots: flight and pursuit. They have arranged this show from episodes taken from the life of Billy the Kid, famed oldtime western Robin Hood. The sheriff who idolizes the man he is chasing, the pure and lovely young girl...