Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Never has a squad more deserved to win. They have met three teams, all of which were faster and bigger and more replete with replacements. Yet in all three encounters Harvard has out-hit, out-driven, and just plain out-spirited the opponents. In all of these games no one has left the field doubting for a moment which team was the better coached. Coach Harlow is the finest type of Harvard man, and Harvard has adopted him for her own. Those on his team look up to "Dick" so much that when they lose, they feel that they have...
...Pacers have a faster gait than trotters...
...succession, the Times committed itself to the prediction that this "pretty well smashed all hopes of a 'normal seasonal expansion' this autumn." Last week, however, bank debits to individual accounts continued to rise (now only 7% under a year ago), indicating that the nation was spending money faster than industry was expanding-a thoroughly healthy state of affairs...
Dickinson's little vehicle was made specially in Dayton, Ohio, and is run by electricity. "It only goes about 17 miles an hour, but it seems a lot faster," he explained yesterday. "And it certainly is handy getting around in traffic...
...high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists agreed that the Englishmen could not travel much faster and live to tell about it (present rubber tires can take just so much friction). King-for-a-day Cobb, who had originally intended to continue the contest as long as weather permitted, blinked his eyes, decided to call it quits for this year...