Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dowling keeps the opposition off-balance, according to the Yale coach. "There may be other quarterbacks around who are better--bigger, stronger, faster--but once the game starts, I wouldn't want to be against...
...feeding on it; you could never quite pull yourself out and conceptualize what after all was bigger than you. Only when it was too late, when you were 16 or 17 or 18, when your mind was becoming aware of itself, did you begin to realize that men were faster runners, louder speakers, and more credible human beings, and that it was They ("They" being not so much men as the spokesmen of the general view), not you, who were proclaiming what you were...
HOWEVER, even if we were suddenly to achieve, instantaneously, the most socially efficient allocation possible, it would not change the fact that practicing physicians, in most states, are dying faster than medical schools are producing them. This while we must have a two percent annual increase in doctors merely to keep up with population growth. It would not change the fact that seven states have no medical schools, four more have only two-year schools, and eighteen more have only one school...
...Toomey led all but a few strides of the way and drove to victory by 30 yds. Final score for the ten events: Toomey 8,193; Bendlin 8,064-a total that dropped the West German to third, behind his countryman Hans-Joachim Walde, who had also run a faster 1,500. "That was the worst competition I've ever been in," said Toomey. "I've never had to endure anything so intense. They shouldn't call this the Olympic Games. It's not a game out there...
After breakfast, before the bus tour, one Dow scientist gave a 20-minute lecture on Dow's plastics business -- "growing at a much faster rate than industry as a whole." Sitting through that discourse on the multifarious uses of polystyrene, I realized how Benjamin Braddock must have felt. He, at least, had had the good fortune of receiving his advice in a single word...