Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apparatus is a refinement of instruments already in use for measuring the frequency or "pitch" of sounds. These older instruments have the disadvantage that they are not sensitive enough to catch the quick transitions in speech, often lasting for only a fiftieth of a second, which this new apparatus is easily capable of recording...
...Tribune's camera was invented by one Lewis H. Moomaw of suburban Wilmette, a onetime small producer of Hollywood cinemas, lately in the engineering department of Stewart-Warner Corp. All he would say about his camera was that it contains a prism, will take a series of quick flashes faster than a cinema camera...
Leonardo's writing slowly changed from a spidery Gothic script in youth to a quick, blunt hand in middle...
...military machine. Every last detail of routine was governed by policy and elaborate regulations. Promotions were rapid and salaries high but Allied got a reputation for killing its executives. To find the right man for a key job, Mr. Weber would make and break half a dozen officers in quick succession. Corporate camaraderie was discouraged-thereby discouraging corporate politics, a bane of big business. Allied officials did not even lunch together. But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear. Some...
...Warburg who ridiculed The Coming American Boom. Part II is a 22-page defense of the New Deal with some fatherly advice for President Roosevelt. The last ten pages reiterate the Major's conviction that inflation in the U. S. offers a mighty fine chance to get rich quick...