Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second eight gained a marginal advantage at the getaway mainly through the medium of Amory's rapid beat which was two notches higher during the first minute than that set by Brown for University A. This lead, however, was immediately broken by Captain Appleton's oarsmen and the first crew, rowing now at a somewhat faster pace than their opponents, pulled rapidly ahead and beyond the half-mile mark had half a length's advantage. Brown kept the stroke up to 34 and at the Harvard Bridge open water showed between the two shells, but once under the arch...
...tide. The "self-made man" of a generation ago, inevitably turning up in New York with a nickel in his pocket and emerging a "captain of industry," has passed off the stage along with the railroad empires of Harriman and Hill. That era was one of pioneer expansion, rapid transition, and adventurous growth; stimulating to speculation and the building up of great "get-rich-quick" fortunes by shrewd gamblers who rightly played their "hunches". In such a period the college man was out of the running. His four years of education were four years lost as far as experience...
...professor at Cornell in a recent address suggested that the trouble with both professional and college journalism is that its practitioners have not yet mastered their "A-B-C", --Accuracy, Brevity, and Clearness. In practically the same breath he expressed the opinion that the most rapid road to a higher plane of newspaper standards lay in a combination of journalistic training with the academic atmosphere of the universities of the country, for by such contact it would be elected and developed much as Law and Medicine had been in an earlier period...
...University and Yale-Princeton struggles the Tigers had an admittedly superior combination to the Crimson's. What two more weeks of training in both camps have done can be determined precisely only by tomorrow's duel. Crimson track teams have been noted in the past for their rapid development in the latter part of the season; and this year's squad is no exception to the rule. The Tigers appeared to be at the peak of their strength against the Elis. Whether they have been able to maintain the same quality throughout the last two weeks will not be detected...
...color-impulses were transmitted from the tiny "cones" on the retina to the brain has not previously been known. Professor Chaffee and Professor Bovie discovered that all impulses passing along the optic nerve are rhythmical, that they go in a series of extremely rapid pulsation's or separate impulses, and that the nature of this rhythm varies with the color of the light seen...