Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed always as a fast pianist was Ignace Jan Paderewski, a challenger to Scott last week only in his Duo-Art recordings. In the fastest section of the Hungarian Rhapsody, Paderewski plays 156 notes in six seconds, or 26 notes per second. Scott managed to outspeed the great Pole by 1½ sec. Scott's all-time record is 44½ notes per second...
...passenger trains for years, to Logansport, Ind., then northeast to La Otto, southeast again to Fort Wayne. There the one-day railroaders went through the Pennsyl vania's divisional shops. Meanwhile the engine was changed from a double-header K-2 to a double-header K-4, fastest of steam engines. This power whipped the train back to Chicago over the mainline route of the Detroit Arrow in record time...
Long before the race started last week, time trials had made it apparent that U. S. drivers would be outclassed. Fastest qualifying time was made by nervous little Roman-nosed Tazio Nuvolari, who has won 87 out of the 153 races he has entered and is currently considered Europe's best driver. In a bright red Alfa-Romeo, wearing a white helmet, yellow sweater and blue denim pants, Nuvolari took the lead on the first lap. Close behind, in identical Alfa-Romeos, came his two countrymen, Count Brivio and Dr. Giuseppe Farina. After the first few laps the crack...
...running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees. Off the diamond, he wears dark clothes, walks with a slouch, speaks...
Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics...