Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was an almost defiant smile on Coach Charley Whiteside's face yesterday as he watched the first two Varsity crews race down the half mile straight-away and finish in the choppy water neck and neck for a tie. Princeton and Navy showed themselves to be among the fastest crews on the mile and three quarter course in the country; but Charley is sure that his crew will be able to come in ahead of the Tigers on Lake Carnegie, May 5, if it registers the expected improvement in the next two weeks...
...years later he sold to a firm in India the first automobile ever to be exported from the U. S. By 1899 he was building the first factory in the U. S. designed solely for automobile production. In a few years the early curve-dash Oldsmobile runabout was the fastest selling car in the country (5,000 units annually) and "In My Merry Oldsmobile" was a smash song hit. But Mr. Olds had differed with his backers and retired, a millionaire...
...large number of men competing in the other events enabled only the preliminaries to be completed. One of the fastest bouts was won by Ernest G. Abdalah '34 over James B. Fitzpatrick '37 in the 135-pound class. Roderick H. Sears 2ES, who fought in the University Boxing Championship last week, gained the decision from Dabiel B. Dorman 2M in the 165-pound event. George F. Fox '37, victor from the 175-pound aspirants, is the only Freshman to qualify for the finals which will be held tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...
...nonstop at 150 m.p.h. with full complement of passengers, crew and mail. It will probably be slated for the run from Miami to Buenos Aires, which it is expected to cut from seven days to five. If so, it will become the world's biggest and fastest airplane in Regular over-water service...
President Franklin's interest in the great merger which was to give Britain the world's biggest and fastest liner and a united front on the North Atlantic was a matter of $12,000.000. This was the sum still due I. M. M. for the sale of White Star in 1927, and the notes were secured by all of White Star's outstanding stock. Mr. Franklin said he had not been consulted. The terms of the merger, he thundered, were grossly unfair to White Star stockholders. While he personally was not a stockholder his company...