Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest reader ever tested, an 8-year-old high-school boy who evidently had an unusually large macula (a yellow spot in the retina, most sensitive point of vision), in one test read 2,202 words a minute with excellent comprehension...
...York's Westchester County, the verdant group of 18 towns and four cities lying north of Manhattan, was last week revealed to be ''the fastest-growing portion of the entire Anglican communion throughout the world." In Manhattan- popularly supposed to be ungodly although its churchgoers, mostly devout Roman Catholics, devout Jews, are many-the Protestant Episcopal Church has lost 8,584 members since 1910. But in Westchester, reported a committee of Episcopal churchmen and laymen last week, Episcopal churchgoers have increased by 12,223 in the same period, or nearly...
...relish worshiping at "mission stations," run by the New York diocese, the committee recommended that certain of the 14 Westchester missions be made into parishes, self-respecting and locally controlled. Likewise -though none had expressed any desire to -the committee suggested that failing Manhattan parishes be moved to fastest-growing Westchester...
Instruments of this type are among the fastest recording devices know to the engineering sciences. Among the researches under way at the present time are studies of the effect of humidity on high-voltage discharges under steady and transient conditions, high pressure arcs, and the development of new applications for power rectifiers and inverters. These researches have already led to the publication of a number of important technical contributions...
...equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters was at work. When the North Carolina is completed some time in 1941, along with its sister ship the Washington, whose keel will be laid at Philadelphia Navy Yard next spring, the Navy will have the two biggest (35,000 tons), fastest (27 knots), best-armed (nine 16-in. guns) and most expensive ($60,000,000 apiece) battleships ever built...