Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word goes round that the league is loaded this winter and the word is right. House basketball, by all portents and by the opinions of athletic secretaries and players, should be faster, finer, and loss soggy than ever before...
...demographer or biologist would deny the validity of the Malthusian Law. Malthus postulated that populations tend to increase faster than do the means of subsistence, and must be controlled by either positive checks or preventive checks. The positive checks are those which increase the death rate-famine, disease, epidemics, excessively hard labor, and war. The preventive checks are those which reduce the birth rates-celibacy, delayed marriage, "prudential restraint" in married life, and other forms of birth control. Although Malthus underestimated man's capacity to increase the means of subsistence, he did not underestimate man's capacity...
Strictures & Sleeves. In the same ten years (1927-37), China's Westernization proceeded faster than ever. These were the years of new railways, roads, schools, flood control, famine-fighting agencies. Chiang himself struggled with the problem of how the old traditions (represented by Confucianism) could be blended with the new ideas. He married one of the three Soong sisters, Wellesley-graduated Meiling, a Christian and a daughter of famed "Old Charlie" Soong, who had made his first fortune in printing and selling Chinese Bibles. (Chiang's first wife, who was still living then, was sent back...
...year collaboration between Narrator Edward R. Murrow, Writer Fred Friendly and Producer John G. Gude. From 500 hours of broadcasting they selected some 60 minutes of outstanding events. Humorist James Thurber listened to the records and, over a weekend, wrote a 10,000-word critique, recommending a new and faster opening and more condensation. The collaborators went to work again and finished up with the present tightly knit ten-side album...
...order to see if "P-K" is truth or fantasy, the Society soberly tries to think spores into sprouting faster, think paramecia into moving right or left, and think dice into coming up all sevens...