Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Electra. Last week Lockheed announced that the first eight S-14s had been ordered by Northwest Airlines, which bought the first Electra. In June the bigger, roomier S-14s will replace Northwest's present Electras on its 2,000-mi. run from Chicago to Seattle, give it the fastest fleet in the world-cruising at 224 m.p.h., with top speed...
...firmer root. Badminton's renaissance in England started soon after the War. In the U. S., where socialites had been playing dignified badminton for years, strenuous badminton did not put in an appearance until about ten years ago. About 1931, badminton began to boom. Currently it is the fastest growing game in the U. S. Last week in Chicago, the cream of the U. S. crop of 40,000 badminton addicts played the first national championship tournament...
Schick, considered the fastest sprinter in the history of track at Harvard, was intercollegiate champion in the 100 and 220 yard dashes for two years and held the distinction of being the only Harvard man to beat Yale four times in a row in those events...
Vincent A. Ditrinco '40 was termed the best boxer of the evening by Coach Henry Lamar, Ditrinco, winning the 135 pound title, was uncanny in his accuracy, and was also the fastest and most agile man in the ring as he defeated David R. Simboli '40 in the finals. Simboli, a peppy, speedy scrapper, could not cope with Ditrinco's lightening-like smashes...
...Absolute hokum!* That would be 150 feet of travel per day. The fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually...