Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest-growing business is the slot-machine industry, which has increased tenfold since 1929, employs...
...third canto saw both sides playing their ablest and fastest, with the New York visitors tying the game up in short order. Douglas Cochrane made the first St. Nicks tally when he caught Freedley out of his net. Captain Blake Shepard and Robert Cooke scored consecutively at 14:39 and 15:56 to cause the 3 to 3 deadlock...
Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...
...ship at sea. Last week the world's largest submarine, France's Surcouf, claimed capture of a German merchantship 1,000 miles out in the Atlantic. The raider also may have had a rendezvous with the 13.615-ton passenger vessel Cap Norte, one of the fastest German ships in the South Atlantic service, unreported since she sailed from Pernambuco fortnight ago heavily loaded with fuel and accompanied by two German freighters carrying fuel and foodstuffs...
...western frontier fortified, Brauchitsch could plan his attack, and the form it took was as old as warfare itself. Only the materials and the name were new. Blitzkrieg, in its simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began. In the last World...