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...They may be quicker on offense, but we're slower on defense?" It just doesn't work...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Laxmen Fall to Unbeaten UMass, 20-7 | 4/30/1981 | See Source »

...Hackett swam his first Harvard race in the season opener against Navy. He completed that first collegiate 200-yd. freestyle in 1:40.38 to set the first of his many University records. Since that first meet, only Hackett and sophomore Ted Chappell have covered the distance any quicker. The senior from Eliot House still holds the Harvard record, a blistering 1:36.85 set in the 1979 NCAA trials at Cleveland State, as well as three other University records for individual events...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Bobby Hackett | 2/28/1981 | See Source »

...strategy worked, as a bigger, quicker Dartmouth squad forced the hoopsters to take hurried, out-of-position shots. Lacking the shooting of guards Boutilier, Kate Martin and Home, which had carried them in their wins this year, the hoopsters looked inside...

Author: By Paul Jefferson, | Title: Women Hoopsters Split | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

...hand is not quicker than the eye. On the contrary, it is the eye that is too quick, that jumps to conclusions. The hand moves quite deliberately, progressing step by step in patterns that the eye recognizes, until at last the eye supplies some steps of its own--steps that the hand never executes. Some motion is observed that is never made...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: Magic and The Big Lie | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...bare ly a second the Canberra homopolar de livered as many as 500 megajoules of direct current - enough to light up a small city. Such a quick surge is essential for rapid buildup of the propelling magnetic field. Eventually, they were able to deliver the electromagnetic kick even quicker, and accelerated small plastic cubes to muzzle velocities of 6 km per second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Swoosh! It's a Railgun | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

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