Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...needs of a small island whose traditional outlet for its surplus products has been found in catering to the highly diversified and specialized requirements of markets in every corner of the globe. The central quest to which British energies should be directed is the discovery of the quickest way of exploiting our acknowledged pre-eminence as producers of high quality goods...
...committee of businessmen and incredulous newsgatherers rushed to Maracay. The businessmen begged the Dictator-President to reconsider. The newsmen waited confidently for the grand scene of "reluctant" acquiescence. But at the end of an hour-long conference, out dashed the newsmen to the Maracay telegraph office. The quickest one cabled...
Perhaps the quickest and most successful way to discover variable or new stars is the simple method of superposing two glass photographs of the same celestial region, taken on different nights. One of the photographs should be negative, on which the stars are black, and the other a positive on which they are white...
...victor in an overtime contest, forcing Cuneo, 230 pound football player, to carry the match into two overtime periods, finally throwing the Columbia grappler for a fall after 12 minutes and 45 seconds of intensive fighting. Nathaniel Warner '30 won the fourth fall of the evening in the quickest time of the meet, pinning his opponent's shoulders to the mat in less than half the time allotted for the bout...
...quickest, sharpest G. 0. P. answer to Nominee Smith's farmstorming tour was emitted by Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, official Hooverizer of the East. Quoth he: "The ploughboy of the Eastern world goes West in a $1,000,000 special train to carry relief to the harassed farmers of that section. His remedy consists of a plea to give him a chance. His promise consists in a pledge to appoint a commission to tell him what...