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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was disclosed that Dr. Humason has put to work the world's fastest lens, for further survey of the abysses beyond the Milky Way. Designed by Dr. Wilbur Bramley Rayton, technical chief of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., the lens has a speed of f:0.59, six and one-half times faster than commonly used in minicameras (f:1.5). The necessary time for spectographing remote nebulae has been cut in half, in one instance from 120 hours to 60 hours. "It is now possible," said Dr. Humason, "to observe faint objects which have heretofore seemed hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lens Work | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...filly Shirley Hanover, priced at 10-to-1, and she flashed away from the field in the homestretch, past Schnapps, past Farr, crossing the line in 2 min., 1½ sec. Track oldsters yipped with excitement. If Shirley Hanover could win the second heat, she would be the fastest winner* in Hambletonian history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hanover Hambletonian | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

After the race last week Owner Shep pard, who posted Shirley Hanover's final $500 starting fee only on the insistence of Driver Thomas, thought he might in two or three years have a really great trotter. The fastest active U. S. trotter, Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Grey hound, who stepped a mile in 1:57¼ in a free-for-all at Springfield, Ill. last year, did only 2:02¼ in winning the 1935 Hambletonian. Two days before last week's Hambletonian, Greyhound raced against the watch at Goshen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hanover Hambletonian | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Averaging 31.2 knots, the French Line's Normandie last week sped across the Atlantic (Ambrose Light to Bishop's Rock) in 3 days, 22 hr., 7 min., fastest crossing in history. Since she had just made a westbound trip in 3 days, 23 hr., 1 min., she acquired, all in ten days, both eastbound and westbound records. Her increased speed is attributed to new propellers with a deeper pitch, and four blades instead of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Speed Queen | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...distances and noting their license plates, offered several explanations for these differences: either Connecticut people went slow because they knew they would get no preferential treatment if caught speeding, or the Midwesterners, or the outstate people went fast because of the "recklessness of the vacation spirit," or because "the fastest and most reckless drivers of any community . . . take the longest trips." The Bureau also found that cars in which the driver is alone travel faster than those with passengers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Automobiles | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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