Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...
Several facts, however, are certain. One is that Yale has in Norton about the fastest sprinter in collegiate circles. Another that Gault and Gibson of Yale will be strong contenders for the quarter and half mile honors respectively, and that Deacon is practically sure of capturing the high and broad jumps, and Bench the javelin...
...world's biggest and fastest airplane-carrier will slide off the ways of the N. Y. Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, N. J., and will be christened U. S. S. Saratoga...
This loss was inevitable, for these large groups were traveling with La Follette only as long as he happened to be bound in their direction. With the close of the campaign, the strength of this union was dissipated, and each is now convinced that he travels the fastest who travels alone. The Brotherhoods are chiefly interested in the repeal of the Each-Cummins law; and this they can best attain by cooperating with the party in power. The Socialists are vastly more concerned with propagating the economic interpretation of history than with denouncing the courts...
...mile run there is an array of runners who will force Watters to the limit. Leo Larivee of Holy Cross and Thomas Cavanaugh of Boston College will make the mile one of the fastest college runs in years, and give Haggerty and Watters great difficulty...