Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Hauptfuhrer (20), Walt McCurdy (19), and John Rockwell (11) led the Crimson scoring. The rest of the Harvards were firing mostly blank cartridges all night. Cornell built up a rapid nine-to-two lead in the opening minutes and at one point during the first half held a 20-point bulge...
...Gymnasts held that margin most of the second period, and increased it to 59 to 50 with only a minute and three-quarters left. Four baskets in rapid succession--two by a much-improved Walt McCurdy, and one each by Rockwell and Hauptfuhrer narrowed the gap, but they weren't quite enough...
...Right to Be Rich. Authors Case & Case do not examine intently enough the reasons for Chautauqua's rapid decline (the explanations advanced-the advent of good roads, movies and radio-might explain a falling-off, but not a collapse). But they tell just how the system worked and a good deal about the performers who took to the "man-killing" circuits (seven days a week, often for three months) during the summer heat. William Jennings Bryan was Chautauqua's top attraction for a quarter-century, sometimes drew over 10,000 customers...
...reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...
Stating that technological change will be more rapid than ever before in the next 40 years, Slichter attributed the long-term demand for capital to population growth, technological discoveries, inflationary methods of meeting the need for capital, and government policies...