Word: fastest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many thousand drinks of whiskey were thus won by Alfred Griffith, Australian immigrant, is not recorded. Several thousand too many, certainly. He was young Griffo, some say the fastest, cleverest fisticuffer ever known. He never won a championship. He trained for prize fights by walking with increasing unsteadiness from the clean white handkerchief to the beer-slopped...
Other Plans. The North German Lloyd Line is building two liners at Bremen, intended to be the fastest ships afloat. The French Line contemplates a ship larger than its 43,500-ton Ile de France; and the Italian Line is seriously thinking of two of nearly like size...
...Baltimore, Navy squirmed to defeat for the first time since 1925. Squirming more efficiently, Notre Dame won the game, 19-6. Flannagan & Niemic squirmed fastest for Notre Dame, although Niemic, anemic, fumbled a punt in the first quarter, giving Navy their single score...
...pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely, and thereafter no man reached first base. He recalled Golfer J. Douglas Edgar, of England, who preferred steins, which, when available, dropped his score a dozen strokes. He recalled Papyrus, horse, who performed fastest with buckets of ale in his belly. These examples proved to Mr. Williams a principle. He mourned for Mr. Adams & Mary Lewis, grieving that the principle had not been properly applied...
...Marsters, a Sophomore back whose accurate passing has been the marvel of the spectators who have watched the Green in action this year. He also ranks as one of the fastest running backs on Eastern gridirons...