Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operating-table hazard that surgeons dread most is persistent bleeding. Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported successful experiments with a magical new substance which stops bleeding almost quicker than a surgeon can say hemorrhagiparous (hemorrhage-causing). The substance: gelatin sponge...
Actually, it is much quicker to walk to and from the Bowl, but any individual reckless enough to try it might get caught in a "scramble" or run down by a fast-charging trolley...
...student's preparation than the essay type ever did. Explains the board's new director, Harvardman Henry Chauncey: "We get a large number of candid-camera shots of the individual, 150 or more, instead of six or eight posed photos." The new exams are also quicker to take, quicker to mark (by I.B.M. machine)-and also eliminate the effect of the marker's prejudices and the state of his digestion...
...progressive monarch, has spent his summer holidays in Britain studying Western industrial methods. At an oil refinery the boy king from Bagdad sat in at a round-table discussion of scientists and technicians. In the course of the discussion one expert said: "I always find I can think much quicker when I am riding a bicycle." Asked King Feisal II: "Why don't you ride a motorbike and think twice as quickly...
...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...