Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fast Flying...
This somewhat ambiguous statement becomes much clearer when referred to the pages of "THE SLANG DICTIONARY; OR, THE VULGAR WORDS, STREET PHRASES, AND "FAST" EXPRESSIONS OF HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY--LONDON: 1867. Here then is the explanation...
...between 300,000 and 400,000 tons short in the naval displacement allotted us with the 5-5-3 ratio of the Washington Armament Conference. We need at least eight more fast cruisers, in addition to the ten now being constructed (England has 60 cruisers faster than any vessel in our navy, except destroyers, and Japan 30, completed or now being built), from nine to 20 submarines and two aeroplane carriers. We need a greater navy personnel. This last need was forcibly demonstrated when in order to send our fleet south for its spring maneuvers, it was necessary to order...
Although England now has 60 cruisers swifter than any in the American Navy, it does not seem that her superiority in this respect will continue entirely uncontested. Reports declare that the Omaha, one of the ten fast cruisers now under construction for our Navy, recently had a trial run. Using only half the number of her boilers and those at only two-thirds capacity, she traveled at 27½ knots-a speed which would take her across the Atlantic faster than any transatlantic steamship now running...
After winning a very even and fast semi-final from H. L. Hartley '23, D. S. Muzzey Jr. '23 was no match for R. LeB. Daggett '23, twice 145-pound champion, who won the 158-pound title when the referee stopped the bout in the second...