Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unions can be weakened, if not actually destroyed, by "open shop" contracts which penalize the worker with discharge if he keeps his union card. But when business begins to revive, as it is reviving now, and unemployment vanishes, the demand for labor is too keen, and the opportunities of quick profits are too tempting to hazard the cost and wastefulness of strikes. It is then more feasible to admit unionism, even the closed shop, and to grant wage increases commensurate with the rise in prices...
There will be three kinds of fire, slow, rapid, and quick. Slow fire, in which a contestant may take as much time as he wishes, will be at distances of 25 and 50 yards, seven shots being fired at each target...
...quick fire shooting will be at 25 and 50 yards, also with two targets at each distance. The target will be a disappearing one, staying in sight for three seconds at the 25 yard range and for five seconds at the 50 yards...
...Freshmen staged a rally in the fifth inning, knocking Underwood out of the box and scoring four runs. The game ended in the first half of the ninth when Casto again retired visiting batters in quick succession...
...innovated by Coach Campbell. All the backfield candidates were made to run in a circle, jump every third step, roll on the ground, hop, first on one foot and then on the other, walk holding onto their ankles, turn forward and backward somersaults, and finally, run at a quick pace, bent double with arms folded...