Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worry about making itself so fascinating that the "prep" school football stars will go nowhere else. It has no intercollegiate athletics, but compulsory infra-mural exercise and sports for all students able to take part. It has neither fraternities nor sororities. And it has stoutly refused to grow any faster than its equipment and teaching staff would justify...
...cross-country team can point with pride to its victory of last week, and look ahead to further laurels tomorrow. In winning from Princeton by one point, the team gave us a pleasant surprise, and demonstrated that each man was doing his utmost, not counting on a few faster men to bring in enough points for victory. The prowess of Cornell on the track is well known, and the test tomorrow should prove at last as severe as last week's. But if the same spirit is shown in this week's race, an even more satisfying victory...
...have yielded only four yards to any rusher coming around his end of the line during the 1920 season. On the other end of the line France, a 185-pounder, has proved himself an able understudy of Hanny. He is not such an experienced player, but it a bit faster...
...have discovered the factors which undoubtedly are largely responsible for Ruth's remarkable ability to hit the ball for home runs. These tests gave him a rating of ninety per cent efficiency compared to an average for humankind of pitiful sixty per cent. His eyes were twelve per cent faster than the average, his ears perform their functions in ten per cent less time than the average, and 499 out of 500 persons have nerves less steady than...
...popular song whose refrain runs thus: "Isn't it strange how the times have changed since Grandpa was a lad". Man faces now, as always, the problem of working longer hours and so producing more, knowing that beyond a certain point the fruits of his labor will accumulate faster than he can use them in his shortened period of leisure. Somewhere a balance must be struck. It is possible, however, to increase the productiveness of labor through the improvement of the material arts. This is what the present age is doing. We now turn out in our eight, nine...