Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambridge last month. Last week on a hard clay horserace track at Vancouver, B. C., Tolan tensed his little black body beside the big white frames of George Simpson (Ohio State) and Percy Williams of Canada, the Olympic champion. When the gun cracked it was Tolan who sprang away fastest. He led all the way to the tape, 100 metres away, arriving there in 10.2 sec., another world record...
...line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene himself, were the gilded antlers that go to the "fastest packet on the Ohio river." From the wheelhouse of the Betsy Ann peered Capt. Fred Way Jr. who had said: "Those antlers belong on the Betsy Ann and that's where they are going...
What started the investigation was the resignation of Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams Jr., the Navy's fastest flyer (TIME, March 17). From the witness stand Lieut. Williams told his story...
...tape and bandage around ligaments he had torn away from his left collarbone shortly before the series. They came from behind in the third period of the deciding game with Ottawa, scored three times in three minutes, won at 5 to 2. Howie Morenz of the Canadiens, the fastest skater in hockey, his round, heavy shoulders hunched toward his stick, his strong legs pumping in characteristic gait resembling a shuffle, but matchless in speed, broke a tie and won his team's series by curling a high shot past Gardner, frenzied Chicago goalie, who had stopped everything...
...held this year at the end of the week. Prizes in the form of medals and ribbons will be awarded to the best lateral passing combination, the best punter and dropkicker, the most alert pass receiver, and the linesman who comes out of the line the fastest. Last year A. W. Huguley '31, carried off the lion's share of the honors...