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When the speedometer of his car was registering fifty miles an hour , the gazelle was easily going sixty , and in a few minutes had become a rapidly diminishing speck far ahead . A rabbit has been clocked at thirty- five miles an hour .
When the speedometer of his car was registering fifty miles an hour , the gazelle was easily going sixty , and in a few minutes had become a rapidly diminishing speck far ahead . A rabbit has been clocked at thirty- five miles an hour .
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It ran the 525 miles from Buffalo to Chicago in seven hours and fifty minutes , an average speed of sixty - seven miles an hour . There is a tendency among American railroads to - day to increase the average rate of speed , but they ...
It ran the 525 miles from Buffalo to Chicago in seven hours and fifty minutes , an average speed of sixty - seven miles an hour . There is a tendency among American railroads to - day to increase the average rate of speed , but they ...
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better than thirty - six miles an hour . And in 1908 he met the rigorous re- quirements of the United States Army by flying forty miles an hour . Then James Gordon Bennett offered an international challenge cup for speed , and the first ...
better than thirty - six miles an hour . And in 1908 he met the rigorous re- quirements of the United States Army by flying forty miles an hour . Then James Gordon Bennett offered an international challenge cup for speed , and the first ...
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