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Word: quicker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Insofar as Harvard can supply an education, it can supply these things. The field is free for a new team of journalists, better drilled in fundamentals and quicker on the ball. It is time to begin thinking about the criteria determinining the use of the Nieman bequest, for this fund may give Harvard the opportunity to call the plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NIEMAN BEQUEST | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

Genesis of the Linotype was the desire of James O. Clephane, private secretary to Civil War Secretary of State William Henry Seward and later a court stenographer, for a quicker way of publishing legal briefs. In 1876 Clephane and his associates brought their ideas to the Baltimore shop where Mergenthaler, 22, was a watchmaker's handy and clever apprentice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Linotype at 50 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Engels was much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I am slow to grasp things, and that I always follow in your footprints." The Communist Manifesto, gist of the gospel according to Marx, was their joint work, as was also the monumental Capital (finished by Engels after Marx's death). Both of them were gluttons for work, both of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marx's Engels | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...first objective, security for our colonies. Such security will be achieved in full with the complete annihilation of the Ethiopian military formations-an annihilation which is bound to come soon. . . . The preparation of our homeland forces on land and sea and in the air will proceed with even quicker rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gas & Gasoline | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...heart is quicker than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: On Your Toes | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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