Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undefeated, untied teams in the country. Except for Notre Dame's bigger & better backs (so many and so good that none hogs the spotlight), the margin of difference last week between the West Pointers and the South Benders was slight. But the Irish were quicker on the uptake. When an Army back fumbled in the second quarter, Notre Dame recovered, scored a touchdown. A few moments later, when Notre Dame fumbled, the Cadets got the ball but failed to follow through. That difference was enough to win the game, but just for good measure, in the final quarter Notre...
...cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance. Professor James Walter Wilson of Brown University hazarded the guess that higher animals, perhaps even man, may harbor these cells, but that they have become so feeble in the process of evolution that they yield to the quicker-acting, wound-healing mechanism which covers a wound site with scar tissue. If this mechanism could be halted, so as to give the totipotent cells a chance to rebuild, it might be possible in the future for doctors to grow...
...Pittsburgh, Dick Cassiano and George McAfee took turns dazzling a crowd of 50,000-but Cassiano's teammates were quicker on their feet, defeated Duke by the margin of a point-after-touchdown (14-to-13) in the biggest upset of the week...
...Roosevelts are quick to become parents. Franklin and Eleanor had been married 13 mos., 27 days when Anna arrived. Their children, with one exception, have been quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...
...Officer for London and the Home Counties last August, is that he makes his home in Brussels, Belgium, 250 air miles away. His is mainly a wartime job and he is needed in London only for occasional consultation. Explained Sir Reginald recently: "Heavens, man, I can get to London quicker than I could if I lived in Scotland. ... I catch the 10 a.m. plane from Brussels and am in my office...