Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...single sculls final, long-nosed Henry Robert Pearce of Australia, rowing with the quick savage stroke that won for him in 1928, built up a two-and-a-half-length lead. Five hundred metres from the finish, Bill Miller, 26-year-old oarsman of Philadelphia, pulling with a quicker swing, began to cut down the open water between the bow of his shell and the stern of Pearce's. Miller's bow was coming up even with the waist of Pearce's shell when Pearce's bow reached the finish. Last major event...
...Banks. "Quicker methods for the relief of depositors . . . severance of affiliated securities companies and the divorce of the investment business from commercial banks...
...through a bunched field to take the lead after 50 yards. Close behind him at the turn was a little Pennsylvania man, Bill Carr, who had started in the sixth lane. Rounding the turn, Eastman shook off the pack but he could not shake off Carr. Geared to a quicker stride than Eastman, Carr, who had never before last week run a quarter-mile in less than 48 sec., caught the Stanford man in the last 100 yards, beat him to the finish by a step...
...after Divisionals, for man does not change though the institutions of man do. In the moonlight they saw the sparkling water, heard the long drawn chuckle, felt the oppressive Cambridge heat. They smiled with heavy assurance each upon the other. Here was a method more amusing and quicker than a cold bath. And in the waiting silence a profounder laugh was added to the long drawn chuckle of the fountains. Up went the windows, out went heads, down went the windows, out came boys. And in the next half hour six hundred Harvard seniors made an aged tradition...
Although the new movement in literature and painting known as "Surrealisme" began in Paris some time before 1924, it still remains the "dernier cri", receiving fresh impetus each year, new recruits, new exponents. In this age when new art movements have rapid births but even quicker deaths this fact alone, the persistence of Surrealisme not for a year but for almost ten, should warrant sufficient consideration. But we must not leap too hastily to any conclusion, either for or against. Some of us who mocked the first exhibitions of Cubism in America, notably the Amory Show, have learnt...