Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women took the family wash and their gossip to "Launderettes," which became a modern urban equivalent to the village well; they flocked to quiz programs where prizes reached a frenetic peak of absurdity. The world learned officially that man had flown faster than sound. In sport, the athlete of the year was a horse; Citation won everything worth winning, was probably the greatest horse of all time. Television became an accepted part of U.S. life...
Dartmouth's slim, baby-faced basketball captain, Ed Leede, tossed in baskets faster than a five-and-ten-cent store salesman ringing up a cash register last night at the Garden to guide his undefeated team to a 72-68 overtime win over the varsity. The Big Green led at halftime...
...ballplayer himself, resents any suggestion that the present-day frequency of "elbow chips" and bone growths means that players are less durable than of old. Says Doc, who often talks the way sport-writers write: "Today's crop is obviously better educated and, if anything, up to a faster type of baseball. The culprit in the injury woodpile is the development of trick pitching...
...students are going to the moves every day this term. They are trying to learn to read faster...
...enrolled in a daily reading course given by William G. Perry, Jr., director of the Bureau of Study Counsel. Perry teaches them to get ideas out of books faster, especially in the social studies area. Most students enter the course, with a reading speed of 220 wards a minute and leave it with a rate of about 420 words per minute...