Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only 24 hours did King Cobb reign. Next morning, Captain Eyston took his second turn. With his Thunderbolt revamped (tail fin removed and square nose streamlined) he regained his crown with a speed of 357 m.p.h., only 83 m.p.h. less than the fastest man has flown. He reached a velocity of 525 feet a second (the muzzle velocity of a high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists...
Torby Macdonald must be classed as the flash of the running backs. His work so far has been very pleasing to the coaches. He is by far the fastest man on the field. Under him at wingback is Burnett who, though not the runner Macdonald is, has done some excellent kicking, which has definitely been a weak feature of the Harlow regime...
...clat of a Hollywood première, Promoters Jacobs, Shubert & Berenson transformed the famed old Hippodrome into a jai-alai fronton (at a cost of $100,000), exhibited 30 of the world's top-notch jai-alaiers in a demonstration of what has been called the "fastest game in the world...
Donald Ray Lash, onetime Indiana University and U. S. Olympic track team star, who last year ran the fastest (8 min. 58 sec.) two-mile race in history, was one of 48 rookies named to the Indiana State Police...