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Word: fastest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blue. Decor runs to silver zigzag-patterned wallpaper, thick cream rugs. The bric-a-brac is Brobdingnagian. Twice married, twice divorced, Griffis keeps his current philosophy, stitched in a sampler, hanging on a wall of his pine-paneled library: "High hopes faint on a warm hearthstone. He travels the fastest who travels alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Gullivers | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...handed hitter was a potential Babe Ruth. At Orlando, Fla., Old Pitcher "Bobo" Newsom got in on the talent hunt. He strolled into the Washington Senators' camp with a rookie named Rufe Leonard in tow. Said Bobo modestly: "I don't say he'll be the fastest left-handed pitcher in the American League, because I'm not quite sure he can throw harder than Newhouser. . . ." Last week, Rufe steamed his smoke ball past bewildered batsmen for five innings. The experts agreed that Rufe would probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie Hunt | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

With Lowell cheering from the sidelines, hard-driving Dunster dumped the Leverett quintet into the runnerup slot of the House Basketball Race last night, upsetting the Bunnies 35 to 30. Dunster unleashed some of the fastest, steadiest team play of the season in presenting Coach Saul Mariaschin with a farewell victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Upset Unseats Bunny Five, 35-30; Leverett Wins Wrestling Title | 3/14/1947 | See Source »

...must not forget that the activities of the brain are far from being all known, and that rational thinking may very well be only one of them, conceivably not the most reliable or the fastest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Telefinality | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Unable to keep pace in one of the fastest and highest scoring meets in recent ski history, Harvard finished a poor sixth out of seven entrants Saturday in the thirty-seventh annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival at Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outdistanced Crimson Squad Finishes Sixth At Hanover Ski Meet | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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