Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fast skating and dead-eyed puck handling completely befuddled the Varsity defense, which never managed to put up more than a token effort toward stopping the B.C. line. The Crimson's own offense, in the meantime, was effectively bottled by the hard checking Eagles, while their efficient goalie Bernie Burke disposed of any shots which got that...
...pocks or scars. Among generals, such a face is supposed to mean that its owner will not be defeated, killed, wounded or captured by the enemy. But last week, in his new job as Nationalist Army Chief in Manchuria, it looked as though General Wei's luck was fast running...
...York University won its 16th straight and Columbia made it 14 in a row. Though both are New York City teams, they are not on each other's schedules, and until last week had no victims in common. But last week, partisans who wondered how N.Y.U.'s fast-break game would fare against Columbia's slow, deliberate attack had something to argue about. Cornell, which had dropped two games (by 61 to 48 and 58 to 53) to N.Y.U. earlier in the season, lost a closer one to Columbia...
...falling out came over the third issue of K-F stock, a fast-moving, on-again-off-again deal that baffled the sharpest-eyed in Wall Street. Fortnight ago, Otis & Co. announced that 900,000 shares of the new issue had been "sold." But most of it had not been sold to the public; the underwriters had been stuck with it. As they had agreed to pay K-F $11.50 a share and offer it to the public at $13-and the stock was selling below the offering price-they could not unload it on the public without risking...
...were few construction workers in Scio, so Reese's pottery workers learned how to build. Men & women worked at a flat $1 an hour, many for 48 hours a week. The women's clubs served meals on the job. The Quonset buildings went up four times as fast as they had even in disaster-stricken Texas City...