Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Calgary Redeye (beer and tomato juice), has become a cosmopolitan community of 550,000. Nearly 60% of the people are not of English-speaking origin, and despite the presence of some 60,000 Americans in the area, the largest ethnic group is German. This is Canada's fastest growing large city. In the past five years, 20 foreign banks have opened offices in Calgary, and last June the Bank of Montreal became the first major Canadian bank to move its chairman, Fred H. McNeil, to Alberta. Says he in his Calgary office: "The time of the West has come...
...grabbed the lead midway through the fifth lap and left his competition gulping in his wake, as he streaked home in a time of 1:52.3, the second fastest ever recorded by a Harvard swimmer in the event...
...next day Gauthier shattered his personal record in the 100-yd. butterfly, posting a 50.48 for second place. This time places him third on Harvard's all-time fastest list. He also notched a personal best in the 100-yd. freestyle at 46.1 for fifth place in the East and fourth in Crimson history...
...individual medley he pulled away from the field during that leg on the way to winning the event, and later returned to take the 200 breaststroke in 2:09.03--less than a second off the University record. Lundberg's 58.4 split on the medley relay is the fastest recorded by a Harvard breaststroker in three years...
...conversant with Freud and Marx, sharply rhythmic and harshly prophetic: "Seekers after happiness, all who follow/ The convolutions of your simple wish,/ It is later than you think ..." Since he had no money of his own, Auden simply let his pen for hire, and it was one of the fastest in the West. His poetry continued to flow, but so did documentary scripts, radio plays, librettos, travel books, speeches, essays. Cyril Connolly marveled: "It is as if he worked under the influence of some mysterious drug, which gives him a private vision, a mastery of form, and of vocabulary...