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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last year Turner was forced to join the ineligibles because of scholastic difficulties. This fall, cleared of all academic entanglements, he is ready to resume his position of the late 1925 encounters. Despite his 195 pounds Turner is one of the fastest line men on the University squad and is particularly effective when playing out of the line, a style ofcenter play becoming more and more imperative with the increasing openness of attack now in vogue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/28/1927 | See Source »

...Cealo Mohawk, not previously notable, last week made public a list of speed swims by animals. The New York World looked up the records of Johnny Weissmuller and Martha Norelius, fastest swimming humans, and noted comparisons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Swims | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Ile de France sped on, driven by four turbines, at 23 knots.† Although this is slower than the 28 knot Mauretania, "fastest ship in the world," the Ile de France will shortly be equipped with seaplanes from which hurried passengers may be shot from her deck two days before she lands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Peace Passage | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...When the U. S., Britain, Japan, France and Italy adopted the 5-5-8-1.67-1.67 ratio made binding until 1932. *The Mauretania, "fastest liner in the world," makes only 32 miles per hour (28 the knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONA!: Naval Parley | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

...another title-speed-boat king-to his list of poet, musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced that his Isotta-motored* boat had attained a speed of 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) per hour, unofficially a new world's record. The fastest previously recorded speed for motorboats, made by Gar A. Wood's Miss America, in 1920, was 70 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: D'Annunzio's Speed Boat | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

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