Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playing one of the fastest games seen in the Commonwealth Armory this season the Harvard polo team defeated the Battery A team 9 to 5 1-2 yesterday afternoon to win the class A championship of the Boston Indoor Polo League. The Charles W. Plummer Memorial Trophy, awarded annually to the winner of this championship, will come into permanent possession of the University team, since it has won it twice previously...
...halted for some time last week "the British Speed King," Capt. Sir (knighted by George V last week) Malcolm Campbell. Impatiently Sir Malcolm paced the deck of "Britain's fastest ship," the Mauretania, until tugs tugged her off British mud flats, permitted her to reach Southampton...
...diminishing spot on the peakside, he shot down into the valley, while his passage automatically formed the connections that told how fast he was going. Turning, he hurried to the nearest official to find out what his time had been. His top speed was 81.82 mi. per hour-the fastest a man has ever traveled on earth unassisted. Comparative speeds: of a sprinter at top speed, 21 mi. per hour; of a good racehorse on a mile and a quarter course, 36 mi. per hour; average speed of a homing pigeon, 60 mi. per hour; of a dummy falling...
...considered creditable. Last week Bowen Air Lines Inc. declared it would operate a passenger service between Fort Worth, Tex. and Washington, D. C. with planes that cruise at 175 m. p. h. and have a top speed of 230 m. p. h. The schedule, if fulfilled, would be fastest in the world (1,210 mi. in 7 hr.). The planes, to be built by Detroit Aircraft Corp., are a six-passenger cabin type of Lockheed Sirius, heretofore built only in two-place open cockpit style. They will be powered by single 575-h. p. Wright Cyclones, will be equipped with...
...London are: length 1,018 ft., estimated speed 30 knots. As a matter of fact French Line and Cunard will undoubtedly try to best each other by secret, last-minute changes. Neither wants to build anything less than a liner which can be definitely advertised as the "largest and fastest in the world." Both ships will be of some 70,000 to 75,000 tons, exceeding the Majestic by upwards of 15,000 tons. Lurks one hidden factor: since neither Bremen nor Europa have ever been run at the maximum speed, both German ships have something in reserve...