Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first sport to be commented upon is swimming, which enjoys the facilities of one of the fastest pools in the country. Everybody who comes to Harvard tries out the pool once. If you can swim, just up the pool and back, you don't have to go near the place again, but if you can't you'll have to learn...
...pontoons, entered it in an Army trainer competition. Despite jeers from other competitors, it won a contract for 35 planes at a cost of $874,000. Designer Seversky continued to tinker his plane, last June produced a pursuit model which is said to be among the world's fastest, with a top speed of nearly 300 m.p.h. After a competition at Dayton, the Army bought...
...always trying to find the biggest in New England. He said that some of those trees that looked as self-important as politicians began to shrink down and look small when they saw him coming with his tape measure. He loved horse racing and argued with Emerson about the fastest time on U. S. tracks. A good, long-winded, lovable man, he started New England discussing problems that were important to it but which were seldom mentioned aloud hysteria in a young girl, misogyny in a young man, morbid religious excitement and its effects, class-distinctions that were unconfessed, scruples...
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...Claire, Wis., when the Chicago & North Western's mile-a-minute "400" flyer halted briefly, police found Floyd Newman clinging to the locomotive's headlight. Remarked Floyd Newman: "It's the fastest piece of iron I ever rode...