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Word: quickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Candy Is dandy But liquor Is quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POETS: The Monument Ogdenational | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...Soviet Union, and adapted their methods in our own way." In particular, the Japanese developed a strategy of looking for "technological gaps"?advances that were not being fully exploited in the West. The oxygen steelmaking process, for example, was developed in Austria, but Nagano and his colleagues were quicker to appreciate its quality and cost-saving features than their Western rivals were. More than 80% of Japan's steel is now made in oxygen furnaces, the highest proportion in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Japan, Inc.: Winning the Most Important Battle | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH an avowed admirer of young people, "especially idealistic young people," Spock confessed that he was disappointed at how easily some of them give up. "They're much quicker to arrive at a radical analysis of things but then they shrug their shoulders and say 'oh I tried that and it didn't work,' " he said. "It drives me absolutely frantic," he added...

Author: By Julie K. Ellison, | Title: The Radical Consciousness of Dr. Spock The Baby Doctor Is Still Counselling Dissent | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

UMass coach Dick Garber feels his team has a different character this year. He says that his team is smaller physically than usual, but is quicker and more skillful. In the past, the Redmen have often been big, aggressive ex-football players...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: Lacrosse Team Will Host UMass Here Today | 4/21/1971 | See Source »

...start Electra-Bar, a human assistant taps the right combination of keys on a cash-register-like machine. Drawing from one or more of eleven bottles, the machine can mix and pour 36 different drinks. It will also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker and more precise than a human barman. But the major inducement for spending $9,960 to buy the machine is that it enables a bar owner to keep an accurate eye on his profits. In a traditional saloon, dishonest or sloppy bartenders can cut heavily into the day's take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Creeping Technology | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

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