Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past, the Rugby Club has always had difficulty in getting enough men to field a team, but before yesterday's scrimmage with M.I.T., 30 men were warming up for the Crimson. Although hampered by darkness and a narrow field, the team showed a fast and able three-quarter line and a stiff defense as it played out a 0-0 tie with the Panthers...
With this consciously created New Class the Russians are eager to identify, and there are pretentious possibilities in their hope for the fast-stepping of the youth vanguard ("At the Revolution, I will be there"). It is difficult to think of a western parallel for this collective identification, unless it would be the unplanned social cast of the "teenager", given group status by popular song, and whose wayward extremes think they are fulfilling a public image "Get your knife, Freddy...
...Willem de Kooning, by Thomas B. Hess, discusses De Kooning's harsh, fast, and fluorescent brand of abstract expressionism in elaborately sophisticated terms, is occasionally apt, often provocative...
...started a foreign-currency business in 1936. After serving as a private in the British Army during World War II. Jasper quickly built up a small investment bank, joined forces with another Berlin refugee, a sharp lawyer named Friedrich Grunwald. Operating H. Jasper & Co., the two began to move fast, using the take-over expert's favorite tactic: after acquiring the controlling shares of a company, they would sell off its property, lease it back, use the cash acquired to buy more companies. H. Jasper & Co. gathered up blocks of apartment houses, movie theaters, billiard halls and a tannery...
These advances have come at the expense of fast growth. For the next seven years Nove sees annual rises of 4% in Soviet agriculture, 6% in national income, 7% to 8% in industrial production. Though still impressive, these totals are nowhere near enough to equal the U.S. in gross national product...