Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seesaw contest throughout, with the Jayvees leading 24 to 21 at the half, the game was a pitting of freshman height, backboard control, and accuracy against the Junior Varsity's shifty floor-work and quick, deceptive passing...
...curriculum was narrow and solid and so was the student product. The reaction against this has reached its height in the last few decades in the wide curriculum and the elective system. It is now turning out a broad but superficial product whose principal skill is that of quick retentive memory and an ability to disgorge and forget a large number of calculated generalities interlarded with a few facts--and whose intellectual interest in any field of education is highly superficial or non-existent. In a small, well-integrated college this problem does not assume the importance that it does...
...fiery purification. In 1936, his clangorous Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk offended Stalin's ever-pricked ears, and the Pravda denunciation that followed kept Shostakovich under a cloud for five years. But this time the guilty composers did not need to suffer so prolonged a darkness. The road to quick redemption had been charted by another great Soviet artist, Cinema Director Sergei Eisenstein. Several times damned for deviation (notably for Ivan the Terrible), he always recanted, begged forgiveness, and put a little more pig iron in his next picture...
Ronald Colman owes his screen career-or its beginning, anyhow-to the quick judgment of another movie veteran, Director Henry King. King spotted Colman on Broadway in 1922 (supporting Ruth Chatterton and Henry Miller in La Tendresse), and gave him the male lead opposite Lillian Gish in The White Sister (1923). Since Miss Gish became a nun in the picture, all Colman could do was look frustrated, but he did that so handsomely that his movie career was assured. During the middle and late '20s he and the late John Gilbert ran neck & neck as Hollywood's foremost...
...with a total of 170 or so plays). But Crisler doesn't use the single-wing exclusively for the power it was designed to produce. By lining up in a T, with an unbalanced line, and the quarterback up over center, Michigan freezes the defense with the threat of quick, hook passes into the flat...