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Word: fleetest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was undoubtedly how all the members of the Crimson's first two lines felt after it was all over. All the Bruins, especially Charlie Sands, were able to outskate even the fleetest of the Harvard skaters. For the relative speed of the two squads was the only outstanding difference between them. That the Bruin forwards were able to score almost at will served to stress the fact that fast skating is the primary requisite for a good hockey team...

Author: By John M. Eaton jr., | Title: Tiny Takes Offense as Bruins Skate Circles Around Crimson | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Most glorious chapter of U. S. shipping history was the one written by the clipperships, fleetest commercial vessels ever whipped over the seas by the winds. Homeport for the majority of clippers was Baltimore. Last week as a late afternoon sun was sending its slanting rays over Chesapeake Bay a steam vessel cast off from a new Baltimore pier, nosed into midchannel. After stopping at Norfolk she cleared for Havre and Hamburg. Official civic celebration marked the sailing for she was City of Baltimore, first transatlantic passenger ship to be documented out of Baltimore since the clippers, first sailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New Gangplank | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...much-touted Harvard one-mile relay team rose to the highest expectations in the Unicorn games Saturday night at the Arena, distancing its Blue rivals by fully 40 yards. Yale suffered its Waterloo when Charles Engle, fleetest of the Eli runners, slipped as he was passing the baton to his anchor Tuttle, who dropped the stick. It seemed, however, to the more critical among the spectators in the thinly populated Arena that the race would have borne a Crimson tinge even if Engle had made a perfect pass, for Vernon Munroe Jr. '31 ran his quarter in under 50 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ONE MILE RELAY TEAM WINS IN UNICORN GAMES | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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