Word: quickened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...central purpose of this grant supporting scholarly work that focuses on women's experience," President Horner said yesterday, "is to quicken the spread of new perspectives and new knowledge by aiding their inclusion into college and university curricula...
...humanity that a principal and his teachers can perform is to enable the children to feel competent when they go out in the world." What is puzzling, however, is Hentoff's attitude towards the radical critique. He writes, "To awaken a Lucy to her intelligence may not help quicken the Socialist Coming, unless she turns out to be a latter-day Emma Goldman. But to save Lucy from believing herself dumb is a most valuable achievement all in itself." This prejudice is especially evident in his tone and attitude toward socialist "academics...
...Carter assumes the presidency next January, he will have the world as well as the U.S. economy to worry about. According to increasingly concerned economists on both sides of the Atlantic, the outlook for the faltering economic recovery in Europe could be determined by how fast Carter moves to quicken the pace of American business. These experts fear that unless the U.S. helps to speed up sluggish global growth by adopting a more stimulative course soon, the entire industrialized world could fall into another recession. Such a downturn could well be hastened if, as expected, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting...
...second mile-and-one-half of the Van Cortland course was hilly and uneven, and this caused problems for the Harvard team as the pace began to quicken. Campbell and sophomore Marc Meyer suffered in particular, and began to drop back even as they both continued to run one of their strongest races of the season...
Leverett started to quicken the pace, not attempting to set up on offense. Curry stormed down the floor on a two-and-one break, sent a behind-the-back pass to Comek, and dropped in a return pass. He followed with a steal and Leverett led 21-20. Leverett had a 26-24 advantage at the half...