Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your publicity men have spread abroad the knowledge that TIME is "the fastest growing non-fiction magazine in the U.S." What is the present circulation of TIME? In a friendly argument I wagered $10 that it was over 100,000. Kindly advise me whether I win or lose...
...there was one body which made the rest seem shoddy. It covered the spare, fierce bones of the fastest "stock" car in the world, the 100-horse-power Mercedes. It was made of steel, painted green, by Edward Budd of Philadelphia. From a trunk swung low behind the gas tank, the curve of the tonneau rose to melt in grace, in vibrant repose, in transcendent muscular languor, into the forward thrust of the hood. The steel mudguards swept over the front wheels with the curve-like ripple of a bloodhound's shoulder-thews; they began where most mudguards stop...
...billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus) and 57% faster than light. They go, in fact...
Plenty of good tackles and guards are available. The veterans include Gates, one of the fastest men on the squad, Rosengarten, Baldwin, whose deadly tackling made him a star on Saturday, and Crago, from the 1928 team, who was out of the game a large part of last year on account of injuries. French and Blake, among the Sophomores, have been doing well, while the other two worthy of mention are Keith and Meislahn, who are Juniors...
...Spithead naval review of 1897, a trim ship some 100 feet long with Turbinia on her taffrail was observed by irate officials to be cutting deliberately across the bows of the royal yacht. Immediately patrol boats gave chase. But the Turbinia showed a clean pair of heels to the fastest ships of the line. Aboard her stood Engineer Parsons, grinning. He had the fastest ship in the world. Within seven years, every British man-of-war and most large passenger ,ships were being fitted with steam turbines. In 1911 the inventor was knighted...