Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bang-bang-bang went the hard husked ears of bright corn against the tall bangboard-about 40 per minute. Balko fell farther and farther behind in the race down the field, but his wagon box was filling faster. Drenched with sweat, he husked the corn on his own rows quicker than a man could pick...
...talk as I write but you can hear better than you can see. You are accustomed to see with your eyes differently to the way you hear with your ears, and perhaps that is what makes it hard to read my works. . . . Youngsters with the least education get it quicker than those sot in their ways. . . . I have not invented any device, any style, but write in the style that is me. . . . No, no, no, no, it is not all repetition. I always change the words a little." When Miss Stein appeared confused about public affairs, someone asked...
...simplified by the general Harvard-mindedness of most intellectually active private school boys and their school masters. To keep the brilliant Middle Westerner from spending his four years in a State college an elaborate system or scouting and propaganda will be required, and the sooner this is begun, the quicker it will have effect. Surely it is good to see college education taking some business lessons from college football...
...these local concerts. For this occasion an orthodox programme of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, President Eliot's favorite composers, was played. Again we enjoyed the invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto, a favorite of all musicians and music-lovers. If we should desire to quibble, we might suggest a bit quicker tempo for the last movement, but let it suffice to say that Father Bach himself could hardly have given a more full-blooded and flowing performance. The Unfinished Symphony was sung tenderly and passionately, though the passfon might have been reinforced by a little more "sturm" And for the Fifth Symphony...
...Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a committee to bring out a New English Grammar to describe the language as it really is instead of for harassing school children with artificial, pseudo-classical prescriptions and "rules"-or to anybody who has at least an inkling of the true nature of language and its principles...