Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second race, Eliot and Adams were deck and deck in the stretch when a Gold Coaster caught a crab, enabling the hard-pressed Mastodons to win by a length. Their time of 4:26 was the fastest of the day. Dudley's creaking, leaking hull finished third by about six lengths...
...University of Southern California's newest candidate for "world's fastest human" was just, beginning to warm up last week. Unlike the late Charlie Paddock, who was chunky, 23-year-old Mel Patton is tall (6 ft.) and frail (147 lbs.). In Los Angeles' huge Coliseum, against a brisk breeze, Patton sped the 100 yards in 9.7 (three-tenths of a second off the world's record which he shares with seven others...
...morning last week, before the dew was off the bluegrass at Kentucky's Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
...London's Thames River, the underdog Cambridge crew caught a crab at the start of its traditional race against Oxford. Then, with 200,000 people watching, Cambridge caught up with Oxford and forged ahead to win a five-length victory-in the fastest time since the race was first rowed in 1829. One Cambridge secret weapon: a cow that the crew had bought to insure a healthy supply of milk in food-scarce Britain...
...Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom...