Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...camera that works eight times faster than the swiftest known camera of today, and can take pictures by starlight alone, is the invention of Professor James Worthington, an astronomer of Carmel, Calif. He is interested chiefly in astronomical photography, but his achievements may revolutionize commercial and motion picture photography. In good moonlight a one-second exposure with Worthington's lens will give as perfect detail as a half-hour exposure with present-day cameras. His plates show shadows cast by starlight. The secret is no new discovery, he says, but "a simple fundamental," taught by Euclid long before photography...
...Aviation gives us the swiftest mode of transportation ever known to mankind. No bird that flies can soar so high nor fly so fast. From the aviator the scientist has learned about the temperature above, about the gale that blows eastward at terrific speed seven or eight miles above the sea, about the pressure to human heart and tissues which high altitudes bring. From the aviator the world has learned that armies on land and navies at sea have met their master. The next great conflict between nations will be decided by their superiority...
...College of the City of New York is looking forward to a brilliant season as well, and Coach McCormack believes that the relay team representing that institution is the fastest that has been turned out in seven years. Those who have proved the swiftest mermen and who will probably line up for the principal event are Captain Lehrman, Bauer, Hodes and Ashworth. Lehrman has been consistently doing the 50 in 27 seconds flat. and Bauer...