Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whitefield (who nearly converted Benjamin Franklin to Evangelical Christianity), Chalmers, Moody, Drummond, were among the best known men of their times. And ten years ago, Billy Sunday, on a lower intellectual plane, was known wherever U. S. vices flourished. His "cleanups" of New York, Chicago, San Francisco, followed in quick succession. Every drawing-room debated whether he did more harm than good. Every Protestant minis ter was forced to come out either "for" or "against" him. He was jeered, knocked, caricatured and people went early to get good seats in his tent...
Haughton's ideas of the duties of a quarterback were also novel. To him the quarterback was the "brain" of the team, and he did not propose to risk the quick, clear thinking of that brain by forcing the quarterback to carry the ball and get roughed up so badly in the scrimmages that he would be unable to direct his team successfully. Haughton's strategy, therefore, always aimed at the preservation of the quarterback's mental clarity. He preferred a lightweight whose brain was functioning every second to a big powerful man who was a good ball carrier...
...Stafford, who will probably start at the pilot position, although Coach Fisher still considers Cheek a possibility, the Crimson has an energetic quarterback capable of inspiring the team to its greatest. He will be the lightest man on the field this afternoon, but so quick and shiftly that as a broken field runner he is a formidable threat...
...that it might return at some future time when it had been modified as he predicted. "This election makes it the official Opposition party." he said in closing, "but if does not seem probable that the English people who have been so greatly disturbed by two elections in quick succession, will want another for a considerable time so that the Conservative party seems likely, barring accidents to have a comparatively long lease of power...
From 1908 to 1916, as coach of Harvard football, Percy D. Haughton created the system which made him one of the leading figures in the history of the game. His coaching did much to convert football from a contest of brawn to one of skill and brains. Quick thinking was the essence of it. From the first day of practice he grilled his men upon fundamentals. Rules were established covering every variety of situation, so that every player was instructed exactly what he should and should not do in each specific case...