Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at pastoral Oconomowoc, 33 miles west of Milwaukee, 42 of the fastest skaters in the U. S. whizzed around Fowler Lake. The first day 50 Oconomowocians watched them. The second day only 25 showed up. The rest of the week, even though it was free and only a stone's throw from the centre of town, the spectacle attracted fewer and fewer onlookers...
Neither is given more than an outside chance to place in one of the fastest fields of the indoor season, although Donahue's 5.8 clocking in the 45 yard highs at the Prout games Saturday got him into the final heat, in which he placed fourth...
...Chicago last week Drs. Francis Wood Godwin and Alfred Orpheus Walker showed pictures of a .22 calibre bullet in flight taken at speeds of about one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished. These photographs revealed the bullet "stopped" in its course, a clear-cut image with highlights gleaming on its surface; stopped again so close to a pane that its reflection could be dimly seen in the glass; passing through and emerging in a cloud of glass dust...
...timed approximately by noting the amount of blur (equal to the distance traveled during exposure) on the bullet. If the bullet travels at 1,000 ft. per sec. and the blur amounts to one-thousandth of a foot, the time interval is one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished...
...plucked most of the primroses along the path. Her married daughter, Emma, is a talented and popular lady of the evening. Her granddaughter, Eva, too young to do anything worse than swear like a trooper, lines up at the starting post of womanhood ready to outrun the fastest of her family. Less stuffy folk than the Wallaces would be hard to find; they might say with Burns...