Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...
Striking with deadly force three times in the first period, the Eliot House football team mixed speed and deception with a liberal amount of luck yesterday afternoon and defeated Adams, 21-0, to clinch the 1949 House football crown...
...from Jockey Ted Atkinson's whip, gave everything he had from the break. The strategy was obvious.: stay with Coaltown, and make him give up. Atkinson kept shaking the reins and yelling at his mount. Alongside him, Jockey Steve Brooks did his best to pump a little extra speed from Coaltown. Like a runaway team, the two horses thundered past the grandstand and into the first turn...
Princeton's team strength lay in its depth and power and not in passes and speed, although its attack contained a little of everything. Fullback plunges and wide end sweeps, the key plays in this pattern, were achieved with the best blocking seen in the Stadium all year...
Davison's two long runs trapped the Harvard guards and left the offensive guards free to go ahead of the play and take out the secondary. Davison had enough speed to take it from there...