Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...include: Leonard Spence, world's fastest medley swimmer: Art Highland and Art Liudregreu, both of whom placed in the Olympics in the 100 metre free style; and Macila Kailt from Honolulu, national champion in the 100 meters and 220 yards sprints...
Safest rule for Princeton v. Yale games is that when Yale has a good team, Princeton wins; when Princeton has a good team. Yale wins. Operation of that rule at Princeton last week was the least contradictory feature of the wildest, fastest, most astonishing Yale-Princeton football game on record. Sandbach's field goal and White's two touchdowns climaxing long marches put Princeton ahead 16-to-0 in the first 20 minutes. Yale came back with one touchdown just before the half. After intermission, Yale ran wild for two more touchdowns, the last on a long pass...
...golden days of yacht building, Bath Iron Works struggled along with Coast Guard and Lighthouse Service contracts together with an occasional commercial job until President Newell learned how to get Navy work in 1932. Since then Bath Iron Works has delivered three destroyers including the Lamson, now the fastest ship in the U. S. Navy. Navy Department contracts account for more than $21,000,000 of the $22,000,000 worth of orders Bath Iron Works has on hand...
Captain Jim Wood, in his farewell to college soccer was the fastest, smartest man on the field, while other heady exhibitions were produced by Goalie Put Williams, halfback George Phillips, and forward Frank Harnden...
...hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...