Word: fastest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past three years the U. S. indoor track season has wound up with a Record- Party at Dartmouth's Davis Field House in the New Hampshire hills. For the express purpose of breaking records, the season's fastest runners are annually invited to stretch their legs on its phenomenally fast, six-and-two-thirds-laps-to-the-mile spruce track-with Dartmouth runners acting as pacemakers. There, two years ago, iron legged Glenn Cunningham ran his amazing 4:04.4 mile. Last year Negro John Borican set world's indoor records for a half-mile...
...other words, a sprint turn. The two dug water like 50-men for the last half-lap, and their leading arms came over for the final stroke together. But Choutean's hand slid under the line first, ending a superb contest in which both competitions swam their all-time fastest quarter-mile...
Last week it was the Biscuit and none other who attracted a record crowd to Santa Anita's magnificent track. Could Seabiscuit win the Hundred Grand in his third try? Could he, after a year on the farm,* beat twelve of the country's fastest thoroughbreds? He had outrun a classy field the previous week in a tune-up race. But this time the Biscuit was assigned top weight of 130 lbs., six lbs. more than he carried the week before and 16 to 20 lbs. more than most of his fleet footed rivals...
...Varsity hockey team held off a highly rated Yale sextet for two periods in one of the fastest games of the Crimson season, at New Haven Saturday night, only to succumb to a 3 to 1 defeat before an onrush of last canto KB attacks...
...team strives to collect 38 of the 75 points scored before its rival. The greatest score possible is 68 to 7; the closest, 38 to 37. Harvard has a standard-size pool, 25 yards long and six swimming lanes wide, which is considered one of the fastest in the country because of its modern construction...