Word: quickers
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...Argentines, there was no star. All the Argentine mounts were superlatively swift, a little easier to handle than the U. S. ponies, though perhaps that was partly due to the way they were ridden. Argentine ponies, like Argentine players, get their training on cow-ranches; that makes them tougher, quicker to turn and readier to use their weight in riding off. They are not broken to polo until they are four or five years old; by this time they are stronger than ponies bred in England or on the playing fields of Westbury will ever...
...that three years ago you went from Manhattan to Cleveland to speed up your national circulation, and last January from Cleveland to Chicago to make it speedier. I told him also that last summer you moved your editorial offices from Cleveland back to Manhattan to get the news quicker and more authentically...
...professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker'n you can say 'three strikes...
...Pardon my rough and tumble entrance to your party. But a brick through the window arouses quicker interest than a dollar's worth of pansies laid lovingly on the threshold...
Paraphrasers suggested that Sir Austen meant, "A League which used raw, un-mellowed, strong-arm methods and thus antagonized its Member States would diadem sight quicker than will the present milk-and-water League...