Word: speedier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speedier trans-Atlantic service by air and water will work wondrous, though as yet unpredictable, changes in the future. We may be sure, however, that customers, one of the other, the "Unite States of Europe" and the United State of America will always have mutual interests that are beyond the power of political partisanship to injure in any permanent...
...boasting to a friend that TIME was the speediest magazine for printing the news and circulating it on earth. I told him that three years ago you went from Manhattan to Cleveland to speed up your national circulation, and last January from Cleveland to Chicago to make it speedier. I told him also that last summer you moved your editorial offices from Cleveland back to Manhattan to get the news quicker and more authentically...
...height. Critics said they were the best amateur low-hurdlers in the world. The Irishman, Johnny Gibson of Fordham University, won. His time for the 400-metre hurdles was 55 2/5 sec. Two yards behind him was Lord David George Brownlow Cecil Burghley of Cambridge University, who had been speedier two years ago. The other Cambridgian, T. C. Livingstone-Learmouth, who had led the way over half of the hurdles, finished a yard behind Lord Burghley. On the second day of the Penn Carnival last week Lord Burghley and his colleagues showed gentlemen from Yale and Pennsylvania...
...Ellison's men outplaying the Hanoverians, tightening their defense at critical moments, and always forming a group around the cage to take the rebounds of the Dartmouth shots, and save possible following shots for scores. As the game wore on, the greater endurance of the Green skaters told, and speedier skating and fast stick-handling gave Dartmouth the edge in the closing minutes...
...perfect average in the field. These are Duchin, who played in only one game; Burns, who has accepted 14 chances without a misplay; Cutts and Puffer, pitchers who have toiled in three games each; and Ellison, veteran right fielder, who before his removal to make room for the speedier Burns, registered 15 put-outs in the outer gardens...