Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Al Labastie is the number one man in the foil. Like Wright, he has a great deal of natural ability, although he never had a sword in his hand before his Freshman year. His style is characterized by uncommon speed and aggressiveness and by a fast, far-reaching lunge. His vigorous parries make him well-nigh invulnerable against the average opposition, and his attacks are always well-planned. It was something of a surprise when Al did not win the individual foil championship in the gruelling two-day Intercollegiate last year. Close behind him in the foil is Crannie...
...great King seeks battle. He prefers to attack. In this, four elements predominate-speed of movement, surprise, concentration of forces at a decisive point, and thrust into flank and rear...
...Dayton Clarence Miller of Cleveland was one of those who refused to give up his ether. He repeated the Michelson-Morley experiment with delicate interferometers floating on pools of mercury, got positive results which convinced him that the earth is in absolute motion, through an ether sea, at a speed of several hundred miles a second. But his findings were not generally accepted...
...reducing agent. With the new solution he could silver a mirror in 57 seconds, instead of over half an hour. Better still, the solution could be blown on by an air gun. With his process, mirror-makers could throw away their pitchers and work on a high-speed assembly line. Few weeks ago big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. bought Peacock Laboratories, lock, stock & barrel, announced that Chemist Peacock would stay on as president...
...reaffirm every word which I have said in advocating its formation; I reencourage the Christians of America to carry on in this crisis for the preservation of Christianity and Americanism. . . . We will visit these prisoners with our prayers. ... If they are guilty let them be punished; if innocent, God speed their freedom...