Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was true in the case of Charlie Hutter, who, by inhaling oxygen for several minutes before the start of a time-trial, turned in the phenomenal time of 22.8 for the 50. The world's record is 22.6. However, Ulen was quick to deprecate the importance of Hutter's feat in view of the fact that it is likely that almost the same results can be achieved by "forced breathing...
...scoring let up in the second and third periods, but two minutes along in the final frame, the Hulse-to-Willetts combination scored again. Then Hulse added another o a quick breakaway from the boards. Exeter retaliated on a drive by Dan Stuckey, Red and Gray center...
Coincident with the opening of the looth session of the League of Nations Council, the Ethiopian Legation in London announced that during the past two months Ethiopians have killed 6,009 Italians and Italian-trained askaris. This was presumably an exaggeration for diplomatic effect. As Italians were quick to point out, during the whole original war of conquest they did not have so many killed...
...felt in U. S. fiction. Last week a young Arizona novelist showed what happens when the legendary heroes of the Old West-men of the cast of Wyatt Earp or Doc Holliday-are examined with an understanding gained from Hemingway's studies of later desperadoes. They emerge as quick on the trigger as ever, but hard-up instead of heroic, dissatisfied, bewildered, trapped. Although they start shooting at the hint of an insult, they, too, eat dirt, have their human share of humiliations in the pursuit of women and wealth...
Abruptly was ended an association which began after Paul Anderson left his Smoky Mountains home in Tennessee and had finished cub's jobs on the Knoxville Journal, the St. Louis Times and Star in quick order. On his first assignment for the Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were...