Word: fastest
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There is little doubt now about the provocation. The Crimson oarsmen rowed the Seattle course in the fastest time ever recorded for the 2000-meter distance. Time, incidentally, is usually an unreliable factor in judging the worth of various crews; but such is the case when weather, tide, and current conditions can slow down or speed up the best or worst of crews. Last Saturday the Varsity won without benefit of tail-current, most often present when records are made, and nevertheless cracked the Yale time on the Schuykill River...
...were installed before the war stopped their manufacture, enabling us to print in Philadelphia and Chicago (and thus keep up with our rising circulation) and to hold the magazine open later for last minute news without disrupting our distribution schedules. Now, TIME'S domestic edition, which is the fastest magazine printing operation extant (well over 1,500,000 copies in 24 hours), is also printed in Los Angeles, 2,500 miles from our editorial offices...
...union's permission last week to fire 5,000 of its 23,000 members. The employer was ramrod-backed Antonio Bermúdez, boss of Pemex, Mexico's Government oil monopoly. The union was the Mexican Petroleum Workers' Syndicate, until recently one of the fastest-striking labor organizations in Mexico...
...many Americans would recognize the name of George Stoddard either, but he is one of the fastest rising men in U.S. education. At 49, he has already been, in succession, one of the nation's top child psychologists, New York State Commissioner of Education, chairman of the U.S. Education Mission to Japan, and one of five U.S. delegates to UNESCO. Last week, after ten months on the job, he was inducted as president of the University of Illinois, second largest...
...money if anyone can, reported a loss of $807,000 in the quarter ending Feb. 28. On the first 20 DC-6 transports delivered, it has lost over $5,000,000. (It hopes to make a profit on them eventually.) Republic Aviation Corp., now building the Army's fastest jet fighter plane, lost $2,134,220 ($536,220 after tax credit) in the first quarter...