Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motor race (TIME, Oct. 19) you implied that the reason the U. S. cars were so soundly beaten was that they were not adapted to the Roosevelt Raceway type of circuit. This opinion, widely held, is only partly right. It is true that the Europeans, with their multiple speed, quick-shifting gearboxes and tremendous brakes had a great advantage, but it is equally certain that they could trounce any of our cars on any kind of a course...
...could, in the new stroke he only has to reach until the oar is parallel to the outermost bar of the outrigger. The legs are kept closer together with the "inside leg," that nearest the oar, drawn up between the arms. It is thus easier to make a quick, even pull-though with plenty of leg drive. The former stroke was apt to be divided into two sections, a terrific slug at the catch and a weaker finish...
...refuses to interfere, Clytemnestra blasphemes the gods, calls Helen a whore, vows vengeance upon her husband. When Agamemnon returns from Troy after 1,007 days, his son Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos) a grown girl. His wife has taken Aegisthus as her lover, is quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over...
...wily, audacious, gives only a dim suggestion of the forces that inspired him in both his persistence and his cleverness. Born in 1722, Sam Adams was the son of a prosperous Boston brewer and merchant, studied at the Boston Latin School and Harvard. He was drawn into politics after quick failures in a counting house and in his father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival of the 1740's, he became an ardent Puritan and remained one until his death, living simply, denouncing...
...Much more is included than in any Hamlet I've ever seen; but then," he added, with a quick smile, "you know I've only seen a few. And in many ways I'm glad of it." I haven't any preconceived notions, but am completely free to draw a new character...