Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Should U. S. refugees have to be evacuated from Rio de Janeiro it would take the Pensacola steaming at her terrific cruiser speed of 33 knots four days to reach them from Guantanamo...
...said that E. Kendall was the best all around back for Harvard because he was "heavy on his feet and easily threw off most of the men who attempted to tackle him." It is hard to imagine any of the star backs of the game today who rely on speed for their gains being praised for being heavy on their feet. But 30 years ago many of the men whose speed today makes them an asset to any team would not even have been considered as material by a university coach...
...with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither and yon for the bafflement of the audience. But you can't fool skilled observers. It's sex, and, incidentally, one of the most abortive attempts at entertainment that Hollywood has seen...
...systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
Rumored to be terrible, Princeton showed more speed than anyone expected. In spite of a scoreless second half, they did not need Halfback James's 85-yd. run to beat Amherst...