Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Nov. 18--Pete Reider set a fast early pace, but fell back and finished nineteenth in this afternoon's IC4A cross country championships. Reider, who led the field at the half-mile mark with a fast 2:15 clocking, was passed at the first hill and never again contended for the lead. Still, his 25:26 time placed him first for the Crimson and third among Ivy League runners in the five-mile race...
...head. To make the dream come true, two young companies are peddling "subliminal perception," the psychological phenomenon whereby a sight too fleeting to register consciously takes root subtly in the viewer's subconscious mind. This technique could flash phantom plugs on the television screen at speeds too fast (around one three-thousandth of a second) for the viewer to realize that a Madison Avenue Rasputin was selling him beer not only between the rounds of a prizefight but between the very punches...
What fuels do the Russians burn to make their Sputniks fly so fast? Wild rumors last week gave them credit for wonder-working superfuels. Not necessarily. Conventional rocket fuels such as kerosene and liquid oxygen, if skillfully used, could do the job. But superfuels are coming along-in both the U.S. and Russia...
BASIC-METALS SLUMP will cause American Metal Co., Ltd., one of the biggest international producers of lead, zinc, silver and copper, to merge with fast-growing Climax Molybdenum Co. American will swap $141.3 million worth of stock for Climax, merge it into new company called American Metal Climax, Inc. American Metal's nine-month earnings slipped to $8,579,062 from last year's $14,869,617, but Climax's net for same period rose to $11,443,953 from...
...quick-hitting football team from Brown got away to a fast start and went on to defeat the Crimson, 33 to 6, in the final Stadium game of the season on Saturday...