Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luxury was fast increasing at Harvard, while discipline was waning. The students were no longer treated as a group of recalcitrant schoolboys, and so they began to behave differently. As organized athletics grew swiftly in popularity, the riots that were so frequent in the 1840's died out. A football team had just been organized; it played a primitive form of the game that resembled rugby more than modern football...
...only well filled, but well supplied with replacement material of the most reliable sort. The forward line, composed of Captain Bulkley at left wing, Reid at center, and Chisholm at right wing, is one of the most formidable combinations Yale has had in several seasons. Captain Bulkley is fast on his skates, dribbles well, and shoots with extreme accuracy...
...truth and save the world. Your college editor, with all the old-fashioned freedoms at his disposal, lots them go; he is just too inexperienced to know and use them. I wish to dust off some old chestnuts for the present editors of the CRIMSON. The world is moving fast and will not wait. Freedom of the press carries with it the heavy responsibility for alert, thorough coverage of the news and thoughtful opinion, a responsibility that will permit no boundaries to effort. Gentlemen, it is your world no less than ours. You owe it to yourselves to make...
Perhaps as a cause, perhaps as an effect of the turbulent conditions under which the early CRIMSON was published, the location of its building and facilities changed as fast as the editors in its first quarter century...
...Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities of lath, presumably kept it out of normal channels...