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Judge and I must break a land-speed record, because it seems less than five minutes have passed since the phone call and the moment we walk into the station to find Anna hysterical beside the desk sergeant.
My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult 2004
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Nine years ago on March 20th 1999, Bob Schumacher set the wind powered land-speed record in a boat called the Iron Duck, “sailing” at blistering pace of 116.7 mph.
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In 1904, he set the one-mile land-speed record by clocking 92.3 mph in a 90-horsepower Mercedes at Daytona Beach, Fla.
Consuelo Vanderbilt Earl, heiress, dog breeder and link to golden age, dies at 107 2011
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It was Mr. Raphanel who, in July, strapped himself int o the new Veyron 16.4 Super Sport and circuited Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track at an astonishing 268 mph, setting a new Guinness land-speed record for a production car.
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She drove the pace car at the Daytona 500 and set land-speed records in jet cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
A Match for Men in the Skies Stephen Miller 2011
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The crystalline surface that smashers of land-speed records have made their hallowed ground for nearly a century seems slushy and thin.
Racers at Bonneville Salt Flats Pepper Potash Firm With Complaints Barry Newman 2011
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"She was really gorgeous and a really attractive 'girly girl,' but could sit down and talk about breaking a land-speed record or flying a war bird in a very matter-of fact-way," Ms. Wagstaff said.
A Match for Men in the Skies Stephen Miller 2011
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The saddest of these is Lanny Davis's act of Clintonphilia in the Wall Street Journal, which may set a land-speed record for disingenuousness.
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The town has been chosen to host an international event, the world championship human-powered vehicle race, in which competitors attempt to set a land-speed record on recumbent bicycles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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The town has been chosen to host an international event, the world championship human-powered vehicle race, in which competitors attempt to set a land-speed record on recumbent bicycles.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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