Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squash racquets (not squash tennis, which is a U. S. invention and played nowhere else except in Cuba) is a family game in England, British women have played more, now play better than Americans. Practicing against men has taught them that the most effective shots are not necessarily the swiftest, that the spindling bat should be controlled not with the forearm, like a tennis racquet, but with the wrist...
...sacred and profane literature the horse has been the intimate friend of man, and it has been his mission to take upon his broad shoulders the load that had become too heavy for his master. The sun itself travelled in a chariot drawn by the most beautiful and the swiftest horses...
...Department of Agriculture, braved duck gunners' indignation. She announced that wild fowl speeds had been carefully paced by plane, automobile and timing device. Ducks and geese, said Biologist Cook, seldom have a higher cruising speed than 40 m. p. h. As far as she knew, the swiftest bird timed was a duck hawk which attained spurts of 180 m. p. h. pursuing prey. Other bird speeds...
...some of these systems to a race. In the American system ... we train the runners, we strive to give to them an equal start, our government is the umpire. . . . Socialism or its violent brother, Bolshevism, would compel all the runners to end the race equally; it would hold the swiftest to the speed of the most backward. Anarchy would provide neither training nor umpire. Despotism or class government picks those who run and also those...
Nervously the U. S. Chamber of Commerce of Buenos Aires cabled pleas for swiftest possible recognition, seemed to fear that Great Britain would recognize Revolutionist Uriburu first. Under previous and pro-British President Irigoyen, British businessmen enjoyed many an Argentine Government favor, had a distinct edge over U. S. competition...