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Word: fastly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accident was caused by a flying squash ball which struck the basketball player squarely in the eye. Squash ball can travel as fast as 60 miles per hour. Murphy had decided to play a brief squash match before a late basketball practice session...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Murphy Hurt in Squash Accident | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...Puritan defense, sparked by Frank Gumpe, stopped Lowell's fast break cold, and John White led the driving Winthrop offense. Ted Nelson, tall man of the League, provided masterly control of the rebounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Quintet Hands First Loss To Lowell, 38-30 | 3/3/1949 | See Source »

...fast, scrappy Milton Academy team tangled with the Yardling hockey squad yesterday and left the Arena beaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet Clubs Milton, 9-1 | 3/2/1949 | See Source »

...modern gambling"-and Nevada's odds. With a movie camera and a tape recorder, they took down the patter and actions around dice tables, hoped to use it to teach Monte Carlo's croupiers to talk and act like those in Nevada. Ceresol had his doubts that fast and reckless craps would ever appeal to the dignified European gambler. For that matter, Monte Carlo's rules would not be too appealing to Americans. Said Ceresol: "We will take back your game, but not your odds." In Nevada, the house percentage is 1.4%; in Monte Carlo, it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Risk Capital | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

With a buyer's market in cars fast approaching, K-F's General Manager Edgar Kaiser, Henry's nimble-witted son, knew he had to get his costs down somehow. Last week, he announced a $2,088 utility car, $136 cheaper than other K-F cars (it has no chrome and fewer frills). The utility car is a combination car and truck which K-F hopes to sell to small tradesmen, farmers and sportsmen. The rear seat folds into the floor and there is a station-wagonlike gate in the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Squeeze on K-F | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

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