Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since he has reduced his squad to 15, rapid strides have been made toward developing the individual players. In Tread Ruml, former Exeter letterman, and Horrigan he has two fairly even centers. Ruml shows a slight edge, however, in that he is also a capable forward. Ulysses Lupien, quarterback on the Freshman football team, and MacLeod make a pair of strong guard...
...that Sherrington, who discovered it in the dog, named the 'extensor thrust.' . . . In so doing [the motorist] presses his foot hard down on the accelerator pedal. If then the first jump of the car sends it along a course where it meets other jolts and bumps in rapid succession, the driver tries in vain to recover the equilibrium of his own body. And, as part of this effort, he continues to press down on the pedal and thereby sends the car completely 'out of control...
...land he has come to rescue. Then he alternates between oppressive sanity and enlightened madness. The queen alternates between resolutions to abdicate and to force her handsome granddaughter into marriage with the tyrant. This princess alternates--but it's even duller in the telling. Climax succeeds anti-climax in rapid succession; tick, took, tick, tock; monotonous alteration in the best soporific...
...labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both the accepted record of 61,237 ft., made in 1933 by Lieut. Commander Settle and Major Fordney and the unofficial Russian mark of 72,000 ft. Then, well pleased, the balloonists turned...
...Napoleon's progress had about as much dramatic conflict as the passage of a knife through butter. During the earlier battles in the vicinity of Montelegino he had perfected his tactics, staking everything on a swift and varied attack, compensating for the numerical weakness of his troops by rapid concentrations and fast marches, counting heavily on the timidity of enemy generals for the success of his plans...