speed humps

[Garson O'Toole]

I apologize for the short link in the previous post for "speed hump".
It is broken. Here is the full link information and a short link that
I think works now. It should work until link rot or entropy breaks it.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7QYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SZgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2279,1754226&dq=speed-humps&hl=en

http://goo.gl/GUzqC


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> OED has a non-bracketed cite in 1974. Here is an instance of "speed
> hump" in 1966. The "h" is reasonably well defined in the newspaper
> image, so I think this is a  "speed hump" and not a "speed bump".
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> Cite: 1966 May 19, Reading Eagle, Mothers Form Human Barricade, Page
> 16, Reading, Pennsylvania. (Google News archive)
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> Mrs. J. Patrick Sullivan, spokesman for the group, said they want
> speed humps, "Watch for Children" signs and police protection against
> speeding autos and drag racers.
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> http://goo.gl/UrSRO
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> Speed hump appears in the hydrodynamics literature earlier with a
> distinct sense I believe.
> Garson
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> I do recall that earlier discussion, but I've still never seen a sign
>> with that warning.  My first reaction was that after screaming at us
>> all those years about how "SPEED KILLS", speed was trying a Make Love
>> Not War strategy.
>>
>> LH
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