Word: speedier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cornell scored its runs in the third, fifth, and eight innings. In the third walks to the first two men up got Healey in hot water, and he was in deeper when a sacrifice by Johnson moved each man forward a base. Bogart, a speedier runner, replaced Tuthill on third and when Gannett of Cornell bounced a roller at Lupien, Bogart slid in under the throw home. A fly to center field and strike out ended the rally...
Since your new color-picture policy, I note no lack of "newsworthiness" in your weekly subjects so I should like to ask if a new improved color process has made for speedier use of color plates...
...Simpler, speedier than the cease-&-desist procedure is the "stipulation," a promise exacted from the offender before a formal complaint is issued that he will be good in the future. One of the chief criticisms of FTC is that these stipulations are sometimes used as a defense when the offender gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail...
...secret of England's glory, according to Maurois, was not the character of her people, it was not climate or her natural impregnability, it was her isolation. Before the advent of the airplane, the submarine, and the speedier steamboat, England was open to attack from the water, and efforts such as the Spanish Armada, when fleets of sailing vessels were the chief cause for worry, bring to light her virtual isolation. To this "miracle" more than any other is due the unique individuality which exists in that small country. To this are owed the great achievements along literary and along...
With the opening of spring track just a few days away, Coach Eddie Farrell is more or less dazzled by the display of talent in field and track events. Not in a decade has Harvard possessed a speedier squad of sprint and distance men, and the pole-vaulting combine of Woodberry, Dubiel, Schumann, and Cook eclipses all previous Harvard records...