Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representatives, (those glib fellows), have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of Brylereem, without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, a chance for Freshmen and Sophomores with latent extroversial qualities to develop them to the fullest, under the personal tutelage of the fastest talking pin-stripes in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening tonight offers everyone a gift of the gab which can come in handy along other lines, 'He said, than journalistic ones...
...shortest, fastest route to the game site is over Route 9 (Worcester Turnpike) from Boston to Route 20 outside Framingham, then to Route 15 to the Charter Oak toll bridge to U.S. Route 5 into Meridan and onto the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...Force chose the Thunderjet. After looking long & hard at all the new models, the airmen decided that the standard U.S. fighter plane for 1948 would be Republic's P-84. Surnamed the Thunderjet, the P84 is probably the world's fastest fighter in tactical service.* Combat-loaded, the Thunderjet's speed is more than 600 m.p.h. Its sound in flight is an ear-cracking whoosh...
...English novel seems to be a race between about six characters to see who is most sensitive, while the American novel is a race to see who can get drunk fastest," he observed with a broad smile. He added that the American writer "is hampered by an over-abundance of material," and can do little but describe his environment...
...Buckingham Palace, young Sitwell in his free evenings discovered the world of fashion. Heady excitements were to be found there: the great hostesses such as Mrs. Asquith, Mrs. Keppel, Lady Cunard; the new beauties, including Lady Diana Manners; the first open roadsters (in other years only "the fastest of fast actresses" would have gone driving alone with a young man); the first dazzling London seasons of Diaghilev's Russian ballet...