Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year the aviation industry was busy building planes to fly airline passengers faster than they had ever been flown before. Last week the first of the new crop, the Boeing "247," fastest multi-motored passenger ship in the world, was in regular transcontinental service on United Air Lines. Big, brutish low-wing monoplanes with twin Wasp engines, the new Boeings whipped back & forth between San Francisco and New York in 21½ hr. westbound, 20 hr. eastbound-about 10 hr. faster than former schedules. On the New York- Chicago run the new ships heated the already hot competition between...
...following two seasons of 1932 and 1933 showed Morse to be one of Harvard's fastest and most versatile performers. Especially this last season has he been a mainstay of the squad, for he could outstrip his teammates on any assignment from the 440-yard dash to a two-mile jaunt, and was always available in case of emergency to fill a gap on any middle distance run and do such a good job that the loss of the scheduled man was felt to the minimum...
...wind. The Eli shell covered the course in today's time trial in 20 minutes, 12 seconds, with tide conditions not as favorable as those under which the Crimson made their record of 19 minutes, 43 2-5 seconds. Coach Whiteside was extremely pleased with the Harvard showing, the fastest early trial time chalked up in several years...
...Groton crew, stroked and captained by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.: a race against Belmont Hill School by 2½ lengths, in 5 min. 25 sec., fastest time for a mile made by any Groton crew in ten years; at Groton, Mass. Capt. Roosevelt's mother was in the launch that followed the race, with her son John (assistant manager of the 1932 Groton football team) and a distant cousin Cornelius Roosevelt, who manages the crew...
...third. Joe McCluskey of Fordham won the 3,000-metre steeplechase for the third year in a row. Pennsylvania's Olympic 400-metre champion, Bill Carr, injured last month in an auto accident, watched Penn's one-mile relay team (Edwards, Schaeffer, Jones. Healey) run the second fastest race in Penn Relay history, with Yale second and N. Y. U., the favorite, third. In Des Moines, at the 24th Drake Relay Carnival: Ralph Metcalfe, famed Negro sprinter of Marquette, after three days of outdoor practice, retained his 100-yd. championship (but failed to set the new record...