Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students, and "You're welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...
Next the hands caught up thin flat muscles from the scalp, swung them around and under the loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...
...lives, both civilian and naval, lost in the whole course of the U-boat war were a: nothing compared with the frightful slaughters of the West Front deadlock which the U-boat sought to circumvent It was humane because it was the one remaining means which promised to get ; quick military decision at relatively small cost." But few U. S. citizens in 1913; could take this view. When 124 Americans were drowned in the sinking of the Lusitania, anti-German sentiment blaze up in the violently pro-Ally Northeast spread all through the country...
...heard not a murmur when he announced that he might shortly spend $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 on a jobless census. Since he aimed to employ some 600,000 white-collar idle for the job, it seemed highly unlikely that the census would be conducted along the quick and economical lines of the 1917 draft at a cost of $300,000, as proposed in his column this week by United Feature Columnist Hugh Samuel Johnson...
Through travelers hand their passports to the French porter, are seldom disturbed by frontier passport control officers except for a quick glance, or occasionally at night a rap on the compartment door and the stab of a flashlight. If suspected of being a spy, the thing to do is to raise a terrific hubbub and demand that the express be held while you telegraph the nearest U. S. Legation which in the Balkans will reply faster than you would think. Usually the express will wait...