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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Count Ciano made his position unassailably strong when he got a rough-&-tumble pal of Ethiopian days, much-decorated Ettore Muti, appointed to Starace's job. Muti looks like a handsome U. S. gangster, and, not being too quick of brain or tongue, is the subject of merciless punning (muto = dumb). Last week Signor Muti had a gold medal pinned on his chest by Il Duce for having carried out 160 admirable bombing raids during the Spanish campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Please make it quick, fast and furious. Please, fast and furious. Please help me get out. I am getting my wind back. Thank God! Please, please. Oh! Please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mobs & Machines | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...melody expressly for you." Seizing a photograph of Manhattan's lower sky line, the composer exclaimed: "The feeling that this photo gives me is distinctly minor, though I know that the interior of the city is distinctly major. I would base this on C Minor." So. making a quick tracing of the sky line, he did. Puffing on a big 7?cigar, he sketched out the melody twice, sang it froggily, exclaimed at its Oriental character, finished the composition in an hour and 50 minutes. In its final form, harmonized for voice (wordless) and piano, he had it recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music From Mountains | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...freeze and store food for the public. The idea took years to catch on. But today thousands of farmers go to cold-storage locker plants, rent lockers big enough to hold 250 Ibs. of meat (or 6½ cu. ft. of any food) for $10 a year. The plants quick-freeze their meat. They also slaughter animals (at $2 a head for cattle, $1.50 for hogs, 75? for sheep) and prepare and freeze vegetables or fruits for 2½-3? a pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Public Iceboxes | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...city trade he advocates a branch plant system whereby self-service locker plants have their dressing, quick-freezing and administration handled by a central unit. At present Mr. Reilly has a group of Chicago promoters flirting with his idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Public Iceboxes | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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