Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnum and Bailey's that anybody might ask "Well, what of it?" or "Who cares?" With an unerring understanding of popular psychology, they realize that what the American wants is quantity- all the measurements of time, space, and movement in the nth degree. We have the fastest locomotives, the biggest hotels, the longest railroads, and the largest crops in the world, and 'these measurements are their chief justification. Not how fine but how much is our motto, and the circus has made of this article of American faith a dazzling reductio ad absurdum. The influence of Barnum...
...blinding sandstorm, Major Leo G. Heffernan made the fastest flight on record, when he achieved an average speed of 250 miles an hour, according to an announcement of the War Department dated March 24. Major Heffernan flew in a DH-4B plane from Columbus, N. M., to Fort Bliss, Texas, a distance of 75 miles, in eighteen minutes. During the flight, which was aided by a follow-ing wind, the plane was surrounded by clouds of dust, out of which it was unable to climb...
...plane undergoing test was a modified form of a similar plane that won the Pulitzer race at Detroit last year. It does not attain quite the enormous speeds made in the race, because military equipment has to be carried. But it is the fastest fighting plane in the world with a maximum speed of 171.7 miles per hour...
...fastest and hardest bout of the afternoon was between Saywood of Brown and Oberlander of Dartmouth. At the end of the nine-minute period, there was only a difference in time advantage of eight seconds in favor of Saywood and so the first six-minute overtime period was necessary. In this period the men kept on the mat but still one was not able to hold an advantage for any length of time. In the next and final overtime period Saywood was unable to keep up the fast pace of the bout and Oberlander succeeded in winning the gruelling bout...
...Crimson team has just been through two weeks of hard, taxing hockey. Immediately after the Cornell contest, Coach Claflin began intensive training for the difficult games to follow. On Wednesday, February 21, the University players were taxed to the limit in three over-time periods of the fastest and most aggressive play of the year, finally losing to the Dartmouth combination 1-0. The following Saturday the team was able to nose out the strong Princeton sextet with two goals in the final period, tying the series. Three days later the Crimson was again called upon to play an uphill...