Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband, were planning a trip to Africa on their power cruiser. He went to a boat-works to buy new parts for their power cruiser, became so much interested that he bought the boat-works, canceled his trip. His British Power Boat Co. makes most of Europe's fastest speedboats, including the Miss England in which the late Sir Henry Segrave beat Gar Wood at Miami in 1929. He says he will keep after the Harmsworth Cup "until I am spent out ... or take it home...
Just how different this match was to be did not become apparent even when Helen Jacobs had won the first set, 8-6, keeping Mrs. Moody on the defensive, chopping back her fastest drives to the corners of the court so that she never had a chance to stop running from one end of her baseline to the other. In the next set, Mrs. Moody seemed to have recovered some of her old assurance. When Helen Jacobs crept up to 3-all from 0-3, Mrs. Moody briskly ran off three more games in a row. After a ten-minute...
...newly organized team of sly George Lott and towering Lester Stoefen. Stoefen & Lott concentrated their attack on 17-year-old McGrath's two-handed backhand. He missed 14 out of 17 chances in the first set, improved later but not enough to play offensive tennis against the fastest combination in the tournament. Their victory-6-2, 7-5, 7-5-put Lott & Stoefen in the semi-finals against young Jack Tidball & Gene Mako of Los Angeles...
...Mussolini's son-in-law. The orders were to burn nearly twice as much oil as on an ordinary crossing, push the speed of the Rex up higher than a liner had ever steamed before and win for Italy at one stroke the two most coveted Atlantic records-fastest crossing, longest...
...into a gallop. Pulling the little low-hung sulky with the driver perched nearly under his tail, he must not stretch out to pull himself along, must drive his legs rhythmically down and back. He is rarely above or below form, cannot win on pure gameness. If he is fastest by the clock he usually wins. Hence last week the experts figured the favorite Mary Reynolds to win although she had recently been beaten twice. The Grand Circuit's traveling bookmakers openly wrote her odds at 5 to 2, figured her runner-up would be a New Jersey colt...