Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic church will increase in power in America. . . . It keeps a stronger hold on its children. They breed faster...
What happened last week in Detroit was, as all the world knows, just another vortex in the maelstrom that is gradually concentrating U. S. bank control. Whirling daily at a faster rate, there are two main currents in the maelstrom. One is the expansion of single units through mergers and new branches. Of this last week's Detroit merger was an example, as was the Corn Exchange Bank and Trust Co.-National City Bank consolidation (TIME, Sept. 30). The other current is the grouping of separate units through one controlling corporation. Greatest examples of this are the Transamerica Corp...
...Faster trains between New York and Chicago were announced by Lackawanna R. R. The Boston & Main R. R. improved its Boston-Chicago service and put through faster trains throughout New England. The Pennsylvania R. R. cut one day off freight time between St. Louis, Chicago and the East...
...quartet chosen to relieve the starting combination is faster and lighter, with the exception of the fullback. Wood, quarterback, Mays and Charles Devens, halfbacks, and Potter, fullback, comprise this group. The first three were luminaries on last year's Freshman eleven. With such material available, the problem of picking the most powerful backfield will be willingly left to those who have...
...back court strokes are the most beautiful examples of coordination and effortless skill to be seen on a tennis court. They are of a type to keep an opponent away from the net as much as possible and simply wear him down. On the defense he is if anything faster than Cochet and his endurance is little short of marvelous. Whether he has magic touch which seems to characterize the Frenchman's play is not sure; he has not met enough worthy opposition; perhaps he would fall as other's have before the defense that is an offense, before...