Gorton evidently still had plenty to learn about Massachusetts, but he was learning fast.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

They had to act fast, for letters were clogging the terminals.

A bright sun and brisk wind had the track in a fast condition for the first time this week and 8,280 St. Patty Day celebrants bet $842,617 on the well-prepared program.

Both of those have had dynamic run-ups in price on the market in recent months, both were selling at higher price-earnings and yield bases than Morton was coming to market at, and everyone who knew anything about it expected the Morton stock to have a fast run-up.

I opened the door, and Wally stumbled in -- fast -- as if Nadine had pushed him.

He had to have fusion power to catch up with the skiff, and he had to have it fast.

This video card would also support fast scrolling of high resolution color screens for games, because it had the indirection of the character pointers, so it was possible to quickly scroll the high resolution display, ( or use other effects ) by simply manipulating the 1920 / 1024 bytes of text video instead of the 24. 576 bytes of high resolution video memory.

The emergence of mobile and man-portable radios after World War I had a major impact on artillery because it enable fast and mobile operations with observers accompanying the infantry or armoured troops.

In 1990, Bulgaria had a total of more than 2, 400 tanks, 2, 000 armored vehicles, 2, 500 large caliber artillery systems, 300 fighter and bomber aircraft, 100 trainer aircraft, more than 40 combat and 40 transport helicopters, 4 submarine, 6 fast missile craft, 2 frigates, 5 corvettes, 6 torpedo boats, 9 patrol craft, 30 minesweepers and 21 transport vessels.

The machines had become fast enough that most users could feel they had the machine all to themselves.

All in all though, the situation had changed considerably and Louis XIV began to look for ways to end what was fast becoming a ruinous war for France.

Jefferson had an intricate and fast style of guitar playing and a particularly high-pitched voice.

A fast attack boat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam | rebel LTTE in Sri Lanka in 2003 passes the hulk of an LTTE supply ship that had been sunk by government aircraft, Sri Lankan Civil War ( 1983-2009 )

A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig.

The medium clipper, though still very fast, had comparatively more allowance for cargo.

Absolutely opposed to this, she started a massive fast, something she had learnt from Bonaventura, whose husband had not been considerate in the least.

By the 1880s, these had evolved into small ships of 50-100 tons, fast enough to evade enemy picket boats.

While still not fast enough to engage torpedo boats reliably, she at least had the armament to deal with them.

During Lent, since chickens would not stop producing eggs during this time, a larger than usual store might be available at the end of the fast if the eggs had not been allowed to hatch.

Meanwhile in Hungary a small-scale revolt had broken out in May and was fast gaining momentum.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

The party's ascent to power in 1944 had marked the beginning of economic change towards planned economy in Bulgaria.

Most of these nomadic peoples had, to some extent, been " sinicized " long before their ascent to power.

The New Testament records that St. Paul had called for the burning of magic and pagan books in the city of Ephesus ; this advice was adopted on a large scale after the Christian ascent to power.

The Liberal Party ascent marked the decline of Brazil, which had supported the Colorados as the principal political force in Paraguay, and the rise of Argentine influence.

In it Petrarch claimed to have been inspired by Philip V of Macedon's ascent of Mount Haemo and that an aged peasant had told him that nobody had ascended Ventoux before or after himself, 50 years before, and warned him against attempting to do so.

" Nevertheless, Gadamer noted that Heidegger was no patient collaborator with Husserl, and that Heidegger's " rash ascent to the top, the incomparable fascination he aroused, and his stormy temperament surely must have made Husserl, the patient one, as suspicious of Heidegger as he always had been of Max Scheler's volcanic fire.

Owen had made two previous attempts on the peak and after publishing several accounts of this first ascent, discredited any claim that Langford and Stevenson had ever reached beyond The Enclosure in 1872.

Big Hill was a detour caused by a then-impassable cut the Bear River made through the mountains and had a tough ascent often requiring doubling up of teams and a very steep and dangerous descent.

Subsequent investigation revealed that the second stage had ignited during ascent, detonating the Atlas's fuel supply.

Before Richelieu's ascent to power, most of Europe had become involved in the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ).

Across the river in 1834, James B. Campbell, treasurer of the canal commissioners, laid out the village of " Juliet ", a name local settlers had been using before his ascent.

Zelaya claimed that Joya had reactivated the death squad, with dozens of government opponents having been murdered since the ascent of the Michiletti and Lobo governments.

The ascent to the summit and back to base camp had taken over 23 hours.

As mentioned above, his ascent to the throne had been problematic, and he continued to encounter discontented and rebellious nobles.

Heat 1 contestant Simon Evans was disqualified as he had not completely worked out all four words at the Laser Matrix computer yet proceeding through the rest of the round regardless ( he was told of his disqualification at the top of the Krypton Mountain ) and in Heat 2 the following week, contestant Alison Riley was disqualified as she had forcibly pulled out batons from the Response Revolve when the corresponding lights weren't flashing and unlike Evans, she was edited out of the remainder of the round after she had begun her ascent on the ladder and a replay was shown of her illegal move.

( This ascent was emotional for the American team, as they saw themselves as completing a task that had been begun by the 1938 team forty years earlier ).

One example was the first ascent of the Matterhorn, which had been repeatedly and unsuccessfully attempted via the southern side.

They arrived later in Zermatt in the Monte Rosa Hotel, where they met two other British climbers — the Reverend Charles Hudson and his young and inexperienced companion, Douglas Robert Hadow — who had hired the French guide Michel Croz to try to make the first ascent.

Because they had kept their plans secret, their ascent was a complete surprise.