Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Walter N. Barnett, 94. retired wallpaper dealer, pilot of the steamboat Natchez in 1870 when she lost her historic race with the Robert E. Lee for the title of the fastest boat on the Mississippi River; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo. Pilot Barnett's alibi: the captain by mistake ordered him to steer into a bayou...
...rebound, but makes the mistake of explaining this to him. He walks out. When he comes back, after the usual Continental revelry, Huntley has dropped in for a drink, and Morris is almost through the door again when Miss Hudson swallows something in the bathroom. Thereupon she undergoes the fastest collapse from poison ever photographed...
...middle-aged man can drive a tank as well as anybody. In the next war the oldest people should drive the fastest mechanized units. Greybeards should constitute the storm troops...
...contention that a pent-up demand for the products of heavy industry had in both cases burst forth precisely five years and six months after the first stockmarket crash. Barked the good General: "The demand for durable goods . . . in a Depression, while it always rises last, always rises fastest. Accordingly, I suggest that not later than June or July of next year should be the beginning of the great sustained demand for durable goods due to the accumulation for five years of postponed demands, and this time should also mark the commencement of the year of full business prosperity...
...fastest work I ever did was last spring, when Carley Whiteside asked me if I could make him an eight-oared shell in six weeks, to be ready for the Yale race. The usual time is at least nine weeks, but I got busy and finished her just about on time. It was the first eight I ever built, and the crew broke the record in it though they didn't win the race. I've heard it said that it's the best boat they've ever had in the house...