Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second period started faster. After two and a half minutes of play Scott dashed down centre ice, passed all the Laval defenders and shot the puck to Zarakov in the right lane. The latter barely caught the disk, but flicking it back to Scott, enabling him to drive a score into the free net. The tally, however, was disallowed because Zarakov had fallen and struck the ice before the puck had left...
Outreached by a faster quintet on an unfamiliar floor, the Freshman basketball team was defeated by Milton at Milton yesterday afternoon by a score...
...cradle at the age of six months, shot-putting is practiced vigorously with managers in the form of nurse-maids judiciously returning the blocks and other impedimenta hurled out of the bed. No sooner is a child able to walk but he has a desire to go faster, and this, strange to say, is the beginning of running, except that the child only wants to get somewhere Jumping over the threshold is a rainy day sport of the three-year-olds, and when at nine one is caught stealing the neighbor's apples one is surprised to find what...
Fire ate up Ely Court, fashionable school for finishing young ladies, at Greenwich, Conn. Red tongues danced upon a rooftree and gobbled earthward far faster than firemen could pump water from a nearby lake. Fleeing with such midnight garments and belongings as they could snatch up, the owners and principals, Miss Elizabeth Ely and her sister, Mrs. Sara (sic) Parsons, could only give thanks that none but themselves, the housekeeper and some servants were in the long, tall building. The 100 or so young ladies were safely home for holidays. It was just 40 years since the Misses...
...possibilities: synchronized with sound-carrying radio, the sight-carrying radio might some day bring before the eyes of a man in Kankakee, Ill., the coronation of a king in Westminister;* it might enable folk to "go to the theatre" by turning a switch. Immediate possibilities: "air letters" (facsimiles) transmitted faster than they could be read; radio-cinema...