Word: urgently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solicitation of undergraduates is handled by the Student Council, thus protecting the students from being constantly accosted by solicitors. Although it has not made out its budget of this year, the Council plans to donate a large sum to the Red Cross, whose needs this year are most urgent, with two wars and the resulting refugee problems present in Europe. In Cambridge about 7,000 people contributed, helping to raise part of the $400,000 planned for Polish relief. All this is collected in addition to a sizeable sum which is reserved for local relief...
Following a deadlocked telephone conversation with an obdurate stage manager and a fruitless telegram, Harvey, describing his message as "most urgent," was able to get in touch with the famous figure, now appearing at the Shubert in "DuBarry Was a Lady," and popped the question...
...armless, legless, headless corpses than had ever appeared on a screen before. The mechanical, impersonal accuracy of lens and film was sickening. Though critics praised the picture, audiences stayed away. But for fascinated fans who saw it again last week, World War II had given the film new, terrible, urgent meanings. Pyramids of women's and children's bodies in Shanghai recalled Warsaw; mangled bodies in bombed Madrid forecast London or Paris...
...Most urgent news Editor Landry brought to Variety's showfolk readers last week was that war had completely stalled Europe's $3,000,000-a-year commercial broadcasting business, conducted mainly from Luxembourg and Normandy for British audiences, who get no commercials from their BBC. Big day for Radio Luxembourg, Radio Normandie and other "outlaw" stations has been Sunday, when the prim BBC goes completely Sabbath. On Sundays, the "outlaws" used to pour forth musical and variety programs acted and recorded in London and air-expressed to the foreign transmitters, briskly dinning Britishers with radio commodities like Alka...
...soon, to the conclusion that Japan and Russia would also make strange love. The Japanese soon announced that a non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia was "not under consideration." The truce was simpler than that. Russia had some important business in Poland, Japan in China-business so urgent that fighting over a few of the bleakest square miles in the world seemed mutually futile. The truce was a truce, not a military alliance. If a military alliance did eventually arise, then the world would indeed have something to be surprised at. Japan's consistent policy since...