Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scored a clean sweep. Had Washington sent no crews at all, last week's Poughkeepsie Regatta would still have amounted to a demonstration of Washington's rowing supremacy. Every shell on the Hudson except Syracuse and Columbia used the Washington technique of a short "layback" and a swift catch. But none could flip the blades back faster than Washington's oarsmen, who concentrated their strength in the middle of the stroke, made most headway even in choppy water...
Rhode Island's straw hat drama will be partially provided by the Theatre-by-the-Sea at Matunuck and the Casino Theatre at Newport, where Eric Swift's new play Sweet Sorrow will be on the boards next fortnight...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are entirely consumed by the burning friction of their swift flight through the atmosphere. Meteorites are bodies which are big enough to survive their flaming passage and land on earth. Meteoriticist Nininger was born 50 years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some...
...were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
Paul G. Saurwein; Robin Scully; Douglas H. Sears; John K. Shinn, Jr.; William C. Sigerson; Richard F. Story; William N. Swift; Terry D. Thompson; Harold M. Thurston, Jr.; Donald P. Todd; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr.; William P. Tuttle, Jr.; David N. Ulrich; Victor C. Vaughan, 3d.; Walter I. Wardwell; John L. Washburn; Louis B. Wehle, Jr.; B. Sheffield West; Samuel W. White, Jr.; Arthur S. Williams; Richard L. Wing; and Morton G. Wurtele...