Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Featured in the April issue of the Radcliffe Quarterly, a publication of the Alumnae Association of that college, is an article by no less a person than Le Baron R. Briggs, entitled "Not Always to the Swift". Here one is encouraged to encourage Radcliffe, remembering that "the race is not always to" the hare, and that seldom does the tortoise lose...
...differ in point of view from the esteemed "Dean". The growth is a dignified and worthy tradition of this Ecole des Femmes merits the praise of less distinguished minds than his. It is in certain minor matters that one must differ with the author of "Not Always to the Swift...
...race is not always to the swift", in all truth; nor is it to the co-educationally stunted mentality. All praise to them who race their tedious way to glory on Brattle. There is no need for a medley relay...
...Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting him to the White House for dinner. Later in the year (1906) Roosevelt, looking for a U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, remembered the stream-crosser, appointed Henry...
...Studebaker stockholders had other strong food to chew on last week. This was the report of the test of swift endurance, run by a stock Studebaker at Culver City, Calif. In 81 hours a four-passenger, closed model, six-cylinder car covered 5,000 miles (equivalent of six months' ordinary driving) at an average speed of 61.12 miles per hour.* No fully equipped stock car had previously been put through a 5,000-mile speed-endurance test. So Studebaker has a record...