Word: quick
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tabor played a weak game and would have been scored upon more had it not been for poor shooting ability shown at critical moments by the Crimson. Wright, the individual star for the Freshmen, scored two goals form the field in quick succession in the first half. A penalty kick was the occasion for a third score by Hord. This was followed shortly by another penalty kick by Norton...
...Talking", said Holmes, "is one of the fine arts--the noblest, the most important, and the most difficult"; and those who have read his Breakfast Table chats will agree with him. Yet in present times the breakfast table has been supplanted by the quick lunch system with its ready-to-serve conversation, and the coffee-houses of the seventeenth aned eighteenth centuries have given way to gatherings where "the one about the traveling salesman" or the too-familiar cry. "Here you heard this one?" are the order of the day. No more is needed in order...
Balkan brigands are improving on the methods of the innkeepers of Oberammergan, shopkeepers of Berlin and Dresden, and restaurant keepers of Paris in the business of quick and complete annexation of American bankrolls which come within their reach. A cablegram tolls of the holdup and robbery of a party of Illinois tourists at a lonely spot in the Balkans...
...with a nickel in his pocket and emerging a "captain of industry," has passed off the stage along with the railroad empires of Harriman and Hill. That era was one of pioneer expansion, rapid transition, and adventurous growth; stimulating to speculation and the building up of great "get-rich-quick" fortunes by shrewd gamblers who rightly played their "hunches". In such a period the college man was out of the running. His four years of education were four years lost as far as experience in the campaign were concerned, and his training taught him nothing that helped to overcome...
...natural course for a business man to follow is to develop his property so as to produce as quick a return as possible. He cannot be blamed for doing this. Now what did those owners do, nearly a hundred years ago, when they started out on their new business adventure--for, it was a new adventure in those days:--just as the first subway was an adventure in our time. They looked over the city, selected a route which seemed to offer the best prospect. Accidental conditions might have been entirely responsible for its location, but the chief requirement...