Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston Garden this afternoon. For free, over at Franklin Park, where lire Varsity cross country team matches strides with Rhode Island State and B. U., you can see Bob Black, Manuel Caetano and half a dozen other R. I. S. Rams who have been known to run much faster than the above-listed nags...
...years in the writing, "Gus the Great" follows the fortunes of a fictitious Augustus H. Burgoyne during the hey day of hoopla. Gus was "as gregarious as a sardine." He attracted money, elephants, and women. His rise to fame was fast and his ruin faster. By taking his life and those of the people buzzing around him, Duncan draws a picture of circus business at the turn of the century. Focussed on the middle west, the novel throws all the enchantment, the crookedness and the bitter struggle of early circus business against a background a hysterical free enterprise...
...Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
There are already many mutations stored away in the human species. They were caused by natural agents, such as cosmic rays striking through the sex organs. But man-made agents can cause mutations faster. Last year, Professor Muller won a Nobel prize for proving that X rays beamed through fruit flies can breed a crop of monstrosities (TIME, Nov.11...
Other sports were better able to make the transition from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing postwar aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...