Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...policy of ship subsidies was adopted there and worked like magic. Inside of a few months the ships were spruced up, running on regular schedules, giving good service, and making money, and pretty soon the companies began to buy new and larger steamers and the commerce showed a very quick response to these new facilities...
...city the size of Berlin. Another type of bomb, lately perfected, will infallibly sink a cruiser at sea if exploded within a hundred feet of it. The Germans-General Maitrot seems to have certain information of this-are no more idle, the Krupp engineers have completed a 309 mm. quick-firing, soundless gun. They are working on a model halfway between the French 75 mm., and the German 77 mm. field gun, with a range of ten kilometres, and are trying to make it soundless as well. With soundless guns and sightless statesmen the next war will be even more...
...perfects the control of mind over muscle and nerves. On the physical side, the football players develops in a perfectly normal way every single muscle which he uses in every day life and in almost exactly the manner in which the muscular system is called upon in cases where quick or unusual action is essential...
...organized for immediate action; that we must have a "three-plane navy" (submarines and aircraft, as well as an adequate number of surface vessels); that the American fleet was unorganized and unprepared for war, oven as a one-plant flotilla. "I want the fleet made ready for war quick," was one of the admiral's remarks...
...camp yesterday afternoon in the Arena by a score of 4 to 2. The schoolboys seemed to be troubled by the strange ice and their playing during the first two periods was weak but in the last period they seemed to hit their stride and scored two goals in quick succession. For the Freshmen R W Reid, who seems to have won a permanent berth at right wing, Captain Crosby and Nelson Cabot showed up very well. HARVARD 1924, NEWTON HIGH, Lee, Lamout, l. w. r. w., Stimets, Tidesco Phillips, Cabot, l. c. r.c., Macomber, Tidesco Walker, Phillips...