Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knee pads protect the legs from injury. This new equipment, according to Wendell, will enable a player to shift quickly from a crouching position to a standing or running position, and in wet weather it will naturally reduce the weight of equipment and enable faster running and quicker dodging...
...this truth, even in a bygone time when college students were quicker to recognize it than they are today, has never restrained boys and girls in college from discussing, among themselves, the merits and demerits of this or that course of study, or of this or that professor. On the contrary such conversation always goes on at our colleges. The only limitation is, that it is seldom very carefully thought out, in the give-and-take of ordinary speech, and is almost never overheard by the professors themselves or by the reigning authorities, who might conceivably receive some benefit from...
...just under 3x5 inches). We all know what a nuisance are the bedquilt Bank of England notes. Our the smaller bed-size is vastly more convenient. If this were again reduced to postal size,, it would still give space 'for all needed printing and would be much quicker in handling, much more compact in money drawers. and safes and, constantly kept flat, would wear five times as The original library card catalog was on ¼ sheets of foolscap. Experience, showed it to be very wasteful of both time and space. Why can't we profit by this experience...
...German reparation than any nation in the world (the U. S. is the world's greatest creditor), should shatter her tariff wall and assist the depressed European nations to increase their exports. But, above all, creditor nations under the Experts' Plan should not press for German payments quicker than that trade policy permits. Further, he warned that creditor nations, including the U. S., might have to curtail production if the Plan is to succeed. The U. S. delegation gasped. The French grew faint. Belgians were dazed. The entire conference was dejected, dismayed. Germans once again jubilated. Perhaps, after...
...pound race, the University Freshmen got off to a perfect start and took the lead at once over the Yale boat. Rowing a long, deep stroke, the University continued to forge ahead in spite of the quicker beat of Yale. At the finish a gallant spurt sent the University oarsmen a full two lengths in advance of their opponents. The time for the mile course was 5m. 43s. The race was long delayed, owing to a broken rigger on the Yale shell...