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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Opposite. To the layman, the wonder of modern T-football is that anybody but a mathematical quiz-kid can comprehend it, much less play it. At Notre Dame, even the basic quick-opener, known as "43" or "the bread & butter play" (see chart), has a maze of variations. When the Notre Dame quarterback has called the play number ("43" signifies that the "No. 4" back is to ram through the "No. 3" hole) and the team has swung out of the huddle, Leahy's tackles have about two seconds to size up the position of the defensive team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...bristly mustache as he listens to the debates. His own parliamentary speeches are coldly factual, delivered in the tone of a geometry professor lecturing a dull pupil. His manner changes when he feels he is being wrongly accused or is embarrassed by an opponent's attack. Then the quick St. Laurent temper shows itself; his pink face becomes flushed, his brown eyes flash and he sputters out his reply, emphasizing his words with Gallic arm gestures and nods of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Pere de Famille | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...couldn't get around the word. I just had to use it." After she had dreamed and importuned for two years, Publisher Cowles decided that Fleur was absolutely right. This week, 46-year-old "Mike" and his 50-year-old brother John, who already own two magazines (Look, Quick), four newspapers and four radio stations, announced that they will publish a new magazine next February. Its name: Flair. Its editor: Fleur Cowles. She has already quietly signed up a staff headed by General Manager Arnold Gingrich (ex-editor of Esquire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleur's Flair | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Fleur, 39, who was a topflight advertising executive before she became the third wife of Publisher Cowles three years ago, will keep on doubling in brass as an associate editor of the picture magazine Look (circ. 3,075,000) and the three-month-old, capsule-sized newsweekly Quick, now up to 400,000, according to Mike Cowles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleur's Flair | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

...Meanwhile, the other players that Schroeder wanted to meet were progressing nicely. In the opposite bracket, Parker and Gonzales fought through to the semifinals. Schroeder's semifinals foe was sophisticated, crewcut Billy Talbert. Billy, a diabetic sentenced to daily insulin doses, got off to a quick lead, but Schroeder finished him in an uphill match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Relaxation at Forest Hills | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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