Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the fastest amateur bicyclist in the country is W. E. Crist, of Washington. During the past season he has ridden in fifty races, winning thirty-eight first prizes and eight second prizes...
...ingredients of the mixture and one day last week resolved to try the compound. The nature of the stimulant is yet a dead secret. It is not even known whether it must be applied internally or externally. Suffice it to say that it produced a marvellous effect and the fastest quarter over run on the fair ground track was the result. Little has been said about the trial of the stimulant but the facts were too startling to be suppressed and they are fast leaking...
...nearly as fast work as the more experienced Rogers and Lund. Wells, L. S., Hardy, '87, Cogswell, '90, Dana, '88, Griffing, '89, Endicott, '90, Strout, '90, intend to run the quarter, and with the exception of the first two, the half-mile as well. As usual, Wells is the fastest man in the quarter, probably the fastest in any college. In the half there is not yet much choice between the men. Cogswell ran a very fast half last fall. Dudley, '87, and Davenport, '90, are both good mile runners. Davenport is a strong man, and runs in good form...
Repeated tests have shown that the fastest time attainable by a toboggan in a mile is 1 minute 39 seconds...
...final when they are made. However, it can be seen that the present records are pushed down so close that only in bicycling, where new ones are merely set up to be knocked down again, is there a probability of an important change in the immediate future.Even the fastest runner can hardly hope to beat 10 seconds in the 100 yards, without a flying-start, though many cracks, including our own Baker, are said to have done it in nine and a fraction. The following American amateur records, taken from Spirit's revised list, shows what we are coming...