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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributing 13 points to the varsity's total. Although his form was still a trifle off, he won the high hurdles in 14.9 and the lows in 24.4. Running the 220 dash for the first time this season, he was barely edged by Penn's Dave Coffin in a fast...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Squad Beats Penn, Cornell By Large Margins in Triangulars | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...point: Michigan Republicans, who have had a field day blaming "Soapy" Williams-and his powerful political ally, U.A.W. President Walter Reuther-for leading the state to bankruptcy, had an urgent responsibility to act fast if they did not want to be blamed themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Bow Tie & Black Eye | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Last week an important speedup of this fast detection method was reported to a meeting of the International Academy of Pathology in Boston. Developed at Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, by Captain Leroy H. Dart Jr. and Master Sergeant Thomas R. Turner, the new wrinkle rests on facts about the cell's nucleic acids that were unknown in 1943. Biochemists are now sure that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) generally increases in human cancer cells; they suspect that ribonucleic acid (RNA) also rises. If the nucleic acid can be spotted under a microscope, it should be a tipoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Faster Cancer Detection | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

Coach Norm Shepard will start fast-balling right-hander Wally Cook on the mound this afternoon, and follow with either Byron Johnson or Ed Wadsworth on Saturday. Cook lost his two starting efforts against Navy and Springfield, but the sophomore has been counted on heavily in Shepard's pitching plans...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Cook to Pitch as Varsity Nine Journeys to Columbia, Princeton | 5/1/1959 | See Source »

Aside from this unfortunate bugbear, the performance was very good, with the soft sections that the chorus does so well coming over especially beautifully. The very fast passage work was a little blurred, and the diction is not as clear as it has been. But the sensationalism, the milking of each piece for the last ounce of "effect" has also gone, and the resulting straight readings are more honest and rewarding. This was particularly evident in Bach's Motet No. 1, also for double chorus, a capella, which preceded the Thompson...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Thompson Requiem | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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