Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow in the same way as the populations of countries according to their census counts. That is, the rate of growth is slow at first, becomes rapidly faster and faster, and then after a time gradually becomes slower and slower...
...beating by the Melrose High skaters who outscored the New Hampshire schoolboys 9 to 2. The scheduled contest with Browne and Nichols last Saturday was postponed due to a case of scarlet fever which has, however, been isolated since. In the Melrose game the losers were outclassed by a faster, heavier team and were forced to play a defensive game throughout...
...with the first year men and the second team at least one day a week if possible and keep in touch with the coaches of these two teams. In this way there will be ample opportunity for men who start slowly or improve rapidly to get a chance in faster company...
...That patients are entering institutions for the insane faster than they are leaving them, which was taken to indicate, not an increase in mental diseases, but decreased reluctance on the part of patients to admit their ailments and receive early treatment...
...example of Richthofen's fine sportsmanship, Major Patrick told me that he once had a fight with Richthofen and that his ammunition ran out. Richthofen, being in a faster machine, had Patrick at his mercy, but when he knew that Patrick was unable to fire he flew close to him, waved his hand and turned back to his own lines...