Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats of plush velour, but a terminal on the Island of Manhattan is still the thing. People wondered whether the officials of the B. & O. and Pennsylvania R. R. had ceased to be friends, whether the B. & O. would retaliate for being ousted from the Pennsylvania Station by running faster trains from Washington to Chicago than the Pennsylvania could possibly schedule (because of its longer and more curved route...
John Weissmuller, ferry-finned pool-plasher of the Illinois A. C., is swimming faster than ever before. Last week he leaped into the Miramar pool, Manhattan, lalloped nine times up and down, clipped 1 1/5 sec. from his own world's record for the 220-yd. dash by traversing the distance...
...assumed the task of pinning safety pins upon stiff cloth. A ribbon was fastened to each safety pin. That made the task harder, but the little man's fingers flew. He pinned, and he pinned, faster, faster. Each pin must lie exactly straight. Each ribbon must hang just so. Faster, faster, FASTER...
They shook hands with Explorer Vilhjálmur Stefansson, who pressed a stopwatch as he burst into congratulations to the two for having circled the globe in 28 days, 14 hrs., 36 min., 5 sec.-a week or so faster than a circummundane trip made by Newspaperman John Henry Mears in 1913. Mears had spent only $836 en route. The new champions-Millionaire Edward S. Evans of Detroit and Newspaperman Linton O. Wells of Manhattan-had spent about $25,000 to go 20,100 mi. in crack steamers, tearing trains, rocketing automobiles, whizzing airplanes. Said Millionaire Evans...
...little Riviera tournaments and lost to Suzanne Lenglen and got appendicitis. She made no apologies for that match at Cannes. Mlle. Lenglen beat her because she is, still, a better match player. They hit the ball about equally hard; Miss Wills is somewhat the better stylist; Mlle. Lenglen is faster on her feet. But when they played at Cannes the sunburned gentlemen at the courtside were betting two-to-one against Miss Wills, and the odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds are curious equations: they are often based on the personalities of two contenders...