Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the huzzahing crowds waited and as he gulped the warm meal his mother had set for him, he told her what he had superlatively done: 1) the longest one-man continuous flight; 2) the longest flight in a light airplane; 3) the fastest journey from England to India; 4) the fastest journey from England to Australia; 5) the first non-stop flight from England to Rome...
...game, which was one of the fastest contests played this year at the Association, was won through Pool's speed. Pounding Baker's backhand shots, the Harvard player took the jump early in the game and retained the lead until the end of the last match. Baker's forehand was difficult for Pool to handle at times, but the University player often forced the defender into many errors on his back-hand shots...
...learned flying, planning to commute by air between Newport and Manhattan. The war machinery of ships engrossed him in 1917-18 when he progressed from U. S. ensign to lieutenant and served actively in foreign waters. He loaned to the government for the war his Winchester, fastest large yacht (about 35 miles per hour) yet designed to carry man seaward from the noise of cities...
When hawks fight, that one wins which can tower fastest and highest to strike from above. Having learned that the same is true of fighting airplanes, the War Department has ordered some "Super-Hawks," capable of towering and fighting as high as man ever flew.* The Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co., commissioned to build five "Super-Hawks," last week issued some of their specifications...
Over 3000 spectators, one of whom at least took an active part in the ice battle, witnessed the contest, the first two periods of which produced the fastest brand of college hockey on record this season. Entering the final period at a grim deadlock McGill snapped up the defense and forged ahead, Doherty scoring a long surprise shot within two minutes after the start of the period. Stealing the top of the Crimson attack he streaked down the ice and sailed the puck past Morrill from the boards...