Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's undefeated varsity crew: the Carnegie Cup regatta; for the 11th year; leading all the way and finishing two lengths ahead of Cornell and six ahead of Princeton; in 10 min. 23.4 sec., the fastest two miles ever rowed on famed Lake Cayuga; at Ithaca, N. Y. Best previous time was 10:32 made by a Cornell crew...
...fastest played games on the Myopia polo field in some years, Harvard defeated Yale 8 to 6 Saturday afternoon and avenged the defeat sustained at the hands of the Elis in the indoor game earlier this season...
...biggest, almost the fastest land transport plane in the U. S. It has a wingspan of 138 ft. 3 in., overall length of 97 ft. Nearly three times as heavy as the familiar DC-3, which is at present the favorite transport of all U. S. airlines, DC-4 will carry 42 passengers as a day plane, 30 passengers as a sleeper. Its top speed will be 240 m.p.h. Its 32½ tons will hurtle through the air a full mile in 15 seconds...
...Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...
...early, Premier Mussolini went out first to the capital ship Conte di Cavour, received the Realmleader and the King-Emperor when they came aboard. The Rex, Roma, Saturnia and eleven other Italian liners carried members of the House of Savoy, bigwigs of Germany and Italy. In one of the fastest naval getaways ever executed, the Italian fleet dashed out of the harbor with intervals of only a few seconds between each ship, got away in 25 minutes flat, each warboat dipping colors to the Conte di Cavour...