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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim as the world's fastest human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fastest | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Herbert, N.Y.U. Sophomore, unbeaten this year, is eligible for his I.C.4-A. debut. The Manhattan and N.Y.U. mile relays that returned 3:20.4 and 3:20.2 in the Millrose meet for the fastest performances ever returned in the Garden, won the I.C.4-A. one-mile and two-mile relay championships, respectively, last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thirty-Five Colleges Are Likely to File Entries for I.C.4A Track Championship | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

...Rather he played the clown most the time and purposely left the net undefended on many occasion to engage in mad scrambles several feet out. At one time he carried the puck to center ice before losing it. At the time someone mentioned that Tiny was once the fastest member of the Bruins on skates. He did pretty well today even with the pads...

Author: By John M. Eaton jr., | Title: Tiny Takes Offense as Bruins Skate Circles Around Crimson | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Ralph Kiefer, Brother of Adolph Kiefer, world's fastest backstroker, will swim the dorsal event, and will also swim the backstroke in the 150-yard medley relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOOL SPLASHERS TO GATHER HERE TOMORROW | 1/28/1938 | See Source »

...three-motored T. W. A. Fokker crashed in 1931, killing among others Knute Kenneth Rockne, that type of plane was grounded. Last week the Bureau of Air Commerce (day after it was done by the company itself) grounded Northwest Airlines' eight new Lockheed 14 H transports, fastest in the world. One had crashed with ten people in Montana fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 17). From the 1931 order the Fokker plant never recovered; Fokker airplanes disappeared from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Grounded | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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