Word: fleetest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Epinard, prize package of French horseflesh, cantered to the post of the Aqueduct (L. I.) racecourse, stood patient while five of the fleetest steeds in the U. S. milled about beside him. They were to run a mile and see who finished first. Finally aligned, the six were signaled...
Baby Bootlegger, owned and driven by C. S. Bragg of the Columbia Yacht Club, N. Y., was second. Miss Columbia, built and launched last Spring by a committee of the Columbia Yacht Club, driven by Charles F. Chapman, hailed as "the fleetest boat of all time," finished third...
This year, U. S. 6-metre mariners launched a squadron of eight new boats, pitted them against ten older barks to determine which four were fleetest. After four days of trial tacking on Long Island Sound, last week, a selection committee, composed of Gherardi Davis and Philip R. Mallory (New York), Robert W. Emmons and J. Emmons II (Boston), named the following...
...Golden Age of turfdom seems at hand. Papyrus, winner of the 1923 Epsom Derby (TIME, June 18), and therefore technically England's greatest three-year-old colt, may cross the Atlantic for an international match race with his fleetest American contemporary, in October at Belmont Park...
...owned by the U. S. Shipping Board, will leave her drydock at Newport News about May 1 to resume her place as the second largest ship in the world. She will ply the Atlantic passenger trade as a rival to the Majestic, the largest vessel, and the Mauretania, the fleetest. Nearly 3,000 workmen were employed in her refitting...