Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After President Conant's talk, President William Mather Lewis, of Lafayette College, attacked the philosophy of constant speed in educational method. Attributing emotional instability of youth to attempts of educators to dispense with purely cultural instruction in secondary schools, he advocated courses in music, art, and physical education...
...speed with which the Duncan sisters work and the rapidity with which one turn succeeds another give for a while the impression of a fairly snappy review, but the weight of the dialogue bogs it down in the second act, which drags and drags and drags...
Founded in 1889 by Maine's General Thomas Worcester Hyde, Bath Iron Works has had an erratic record. It nearly went under in 1895 when an experimental armored ram built for the Navy failed to develop the speed required. The firm was saved by a special Act of Congress which authorized the craft's acceptance on the ground that the builders were not responsible for its deficiencies. A few years later Bath Iron Works was sold to Charles Michael Schwab's U. S. Shipbuilding Co., which sold it back to General Hyde...
...season by the actual record, that of the team of 1936 does not tell the whole story. An uphill struggle from the time it was announced that certain key players would not be eligible this fall; the constant work on the fundamentals of blocking and tackling; and speed and timing, which resulted in long touchdown marches in the Princeton, Navy, and Yale games; and especially the development of team morale and fighting spirit--these are the factors which do not appeal in the record, but which made the season of Captain Gaffney and Coach Harlow and their men unquestionably...
...activities of the journalists who fought back and forth during Walpole's last fifteen years in office. No period can rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective for their purpose than were they for theirs. Since they could not suppress it, ministers were obliged to enter the fight. Political scribbling, though loudly despised as a prostituted trade, became almost respectable when great men set up their own journals to solicit...