Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attended to by U. S. Representatives from Yale University. Said Dr. Luther Allan Weigle, dean-elect of the Yale School of Divinity: "If the older generation is motor-mad, radio-ragged, jumping with jazz and hungry with lust, we may expect the younger generation to go further and faster on the same road." Fay Campbell, secretary of the Yale Y. M. C. A., told about sex: "If a student comes for help on the sex-question I must not be satisfied with just giving him advice, but I must show, for instance, how he may be helping prostitution by buying...
...American humor has changed greatly since I have been here, and more still in the last 20 years. Also, it changes so much faster. A good thing in New York is known on the Pacific the next day, and the third day it is thrown out. In Scotland we take it for what it's worth, but we don't scrap it without consideration. As for the jokes about the Scotch, we laugh at them too, but they don't mean anything...
...cathode to the second. There 300,000 more volts kicked the speeding electrons into the next similarly acting cylinder, where 300,000 more volts gave a final kick. The rays cascaded out of the apparatus at 175,000 miles per second-almost as fast as light, 350,000 times faster than a rifle bullet. Dr. Coolidge watched them, hiding within a lead-lined, lead-paned booth so that he might not be injured by the incalculable effects of his experiments...
Sometimes human beings do things that are too much for even the most indurate newsgatherers of the daily press to contemplate without shuddering. But newsgatherers must tell all. The more terrible the scene, the faster news of it will travel, if not by direct word then by dark references, glances over shoulders, ominous silences. It is a newsgatherer's duty to make his report before hints and half-facts have gained currency, letting his editor decide whether the report should ever be made public...
...Buffalo and there administered an overwhelming defeat to the weak Nichols Club team by a 12-2 score. The contest was played on a very small rink and was marred by rough play on both sides. At no time were the New Yorkers a match for their smoother and faster opponents. The Crimson forward line took the disc up the ice time and again in a beautiful exhibition of coordination and team work. Both forward lines were used and proved equally efficient in driving the puck home. The work of the Crimson defense men was of a similar high grade...