Now new research finds that this hand position creates an "invisible web" of water that gives swimmers more speed.
And it gives me great hope that the next hundred days and beyond will even have more speed on it.
In the never-ending quest for more speed and power in computers, ever-increasing numbers of individual transistors must be crammed onto silicon chips.
"They're a little stronger, they have a bit more speed but they might lack a bit of experience, " he told BBC Sport.
More speed means more consumption, and Cisco projects mobile speeds (including 2G, 3G and 4G networks) to increase nine-fold from 2011 to 2016.
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The Nationals then signed closer Rafael Soriano in free agency and traded for Denard Span to add more speed to their dynamic lineup.
The company could charge a bunch for its machines, and customers didn't mind because they got even more speed and efficiency in their automation.
The unique Logitech concave key design gives you more comfortable and quiet typing, and offers more speed and precision than typing on an on-screen keyboard.
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Certainly I would be willing to sacrifice a bit of power consumption in order to get a bit more speed and more reliable frame rates.
Users have been petitioning for more speed since the phone's debut.
Airlines told him they wanted economy and comfort, not more speed, so Mr Mulally went back to the drawing board to produce something more to their liking.
"I think the last 10m wasn't quite as strong as it normally is because I put in more speed at the beginning, " said Florida-based Spofforth, who adds gold to her 200m silver.
"I want more speed from them, and the passing of the ball will have to be greatly improved, " says Lissek, who coached Germany from 1982 to its bronze-medal place in this year's World Cup.
If the second foot has more speed than the first, the dancer looks like he is buoyantly moving up even as he is landing like a jet with its nose in the air as it is landing.
And last up, under options you can get even more speed by setting frequencies over 500 MHz, this might not work, it might mess up your device and you'll need to soft reset, but it's fun to play around with.
In a world where mobile networks give us more speed than the average person can feasibly use, not only do iPads and iPhones not require normal wireless connections, but personal computers and laptops could easily be outfitted with 5G receivers instead of normal wireless.
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We also believe that economic growth will start to improve, going from a half-speed recovery to a more normal speed recovery.
In particular, both Friedman and Epstein think we need to build more high speed passenger trains.
Mr Obama has endorsed congressional plans to let it charge more to speed things up.
But your correspondent is not sure that more raw speed will solve the glacial loading problem.
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Mr Clegg also promised more high speed rail links and surcharges on most flights under a Lib Dem government.
But at 95 degrees Fahrenheit and 5, 352 feet above sea level, with no takeoff flaps, we needed more ground speed.
While total revenue generating units fell by 63, 000 to 35.8 million, the company managed to add more high speed data and digital phone subscribers.
More than speed, though, Cisco wants the router to manage complexity.
The more scenarios you have, the more you speed up discovery.
More mobile speed cameras are to be used in North Yorkshire after a pilot scheme saw fatal road crashes reduced by nearly half, according to police.
We have a much better understanding of the dynamics of the atmosphere, more observations from towers, balloons and radar, and faster computers with much more processing speed and memory.
When rating cities for 4G access and quality, RootMetrics took more than speed into account: By their reckoning, a "4G city" must also offer a choice of reliable 4G providers.
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