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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Iowa, is a short, bald 49-year old native of Kentucky, who may shortly be known among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid-iron lessons from him in Superior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPOTLIGHTER These Names Make News | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...climate Nevada cannot boast-hot & dry in summer; so snowy cold in winter that even the Governor gets out and shovels (see cut). And to its quick divorces it may soon have stiff competition: last week the Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEVADA: One Sound State | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

...Huskies yearlings piled up a quick lead and at the half were leading 25-18. The Crimson came back in the third quarter paced by Captain Lutz who sunk four from the floor and a foul shot. But the opposition was too polished and the Yardlings never threatened after this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Hoopsters Lose to Speedy Northeastern Cubs | 3/4/1937 | See Source »

...Democratic National Committee in the last campaign. Sulphur and other big Texas industries spent a deal of effort on their favorite candidates for the Legislature, many of whom were defeated in the primaries. This fact has not been forgotten by the winners, notably by San Antonio's quick-tongued little State Senator J. Franklin Spears and Georgetown's reforming Representative Harry Newton Graves. Some of Mr. Spears's colleagues got the scare of their lives a few weeks ago when his supporters very nearly succeeded in jamming through a resolution requiring all Texas Senators to report their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Brimstone Taxes | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

Scoring five quick goals in the last half of the first period, the Varsity hockey team coasted to an 8 to 5 victory over a never say die Bulldog sextet Saturday night at the New Haven Arena. In ringing up their twenty-first win in their last twenty-two starts, the Stubbsmen not only took the first game in the Yale series, but also were the first to capture for the second successive year the Quadrangular League championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEXTET COASTS TO 8-5 CONQUEST OF ELI TEAM | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

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