Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second quarter was scoreless, and Redskin rooters moaned when Sam Baugh was pulled out from under four of the larger Bears and was led off the field. In the third period Sam Baugh came back, limping. He then proceeded to outdo himself, successfully passing while running at full speed, while Bears clung to him, while on one knee. Three of these passes, good for a total of 167 yd., were also good for three touchdowns. The Bears meanwhile came back and scored one. One minute before the end of the game, the Redskins were leading...
...characters in this bromidic fable are superficial, the emotional appeal obvious. There are coy references to the hectic speed of the bicycle era and red flannel underwear, but Miss Skinner almost atones for these commonplaces by the varied distinction of her acting. Not only does she play Edna at crucial stages of her life, she impersonates seven other characters besides. Broadly caricatured and really funny is her dowager Dolly McElroy, millionaire wife of a Chicago meat packer, who welcomes Edna's husband into pre-War society among potted palms and ottomans. As Edna's sister on the deck...
This is a high price to pay, for it means that, in order to control Chinese territory permanently, Japan must develop it and speed industrialization. And yet if industrialization goes forward, will Chinese nationalism lag far behind? Remember that Manchuria had been Chinese for hardly more than a generation, whereas North China is the oldest inhabited part of the country...
...another great study he demolished the adage that "you can't teach an old dog new tricks." He proved that man's learning speed declines very little between 25 and 45 years, very slowly after that...
...from uncivilized are the natives, for, in their disdain of modern conveniences and the furious speed of polo-shirted tourists, they flaunt a sophistication far more tangible than the bored expression of those who have lived a life of smiles and champagne--theirs is a sophistication sprung from the steaming earth, the planting of their crops, and the legends of their ancestors and their ancestors' gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious...