Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hungary has in this taken a step worthy of emulation. Prompt and scientific action on the part of the detective service can lead only to equally efficient action by the courts, so that the escape of offenders may be expected to become a thing of the past. At a time when American methods and agents are being subjected to intense scrutiny, it might be well, if only to bolster public confidence, to follow the lead of Europe in dealing with and reducing the extraneous part of the population...
Applications for the Harvard-Yale hockey game to be played in the Arena, March 3, will close this afternoon at 5 o'clock, it was announced by the H. A. A. last night. As there is a limited number of tickets prompt attention is necessary...
...will cooperate with the trial Justice and my adversary to secure a speedy, prompt and complete presentation of the facts of the case. I will neither make nor oppose interlocutory motions unless they are of real and practical importance. I will take no appeal unless I am satisfied that substantial error has been committed and that a new trial should reasonably give a different result." To this credo listeners, including many a distinguished lawyer, resolved complete approval...
Delay has this year been partly excusable, a fire in the printing plant postponing the issue for six weeks. But even six weeks earlier would have been too late, when prompt cooperation from sources of Register data would have made it possible to publish in late November...
...undertake the hardest possible form of endeavor. Then there is a second and more practical reason. The CRIMSON candidate becomes immediately upon his election to the Board a full fledged editor. And as an editor he will often be faced with situations which require a large measure of prompt and vigorous action. He may find some afternoon in the late spring that he is confronted with the task of getting out an entire paper practically without assistance; he may learn of an important appointment or death at a late hour some night when he has only his own judgement...