Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...York City has only one mayor, and a little fellow at that. Sandy Springs, S. C. has two-as tall as tamaracks and as quick after quail as anybody in Anderson County. W. K. Moore is 6 ft. 5 in., and wears a Southern statesman's hat. Sam Smith weighs 275 pounds, towers almost as high...
...earlier socialists, Saint-Simon, Robert Owen, Fourier, were really trying to create a more Christian life. With their socialist communities, workshops and phalansteries, they hoped to convert the world by good example. Most of the good examples came to life in the U. S., usually died a quick death, sometimes lingered like the Oneida Community or the Fourierist phalanstery near Red Bank, N. J. There the remnants of transcendental Brook Farm migrated. There Author Alexander Woollcott was born...
...Harvard attack seemed to be hogging down when the purple squad with a first period score as a foundation were given two more in quick succession from the toes of John Gibson and Dave Fitzgerald respectively in the fourth. But with Williams knocking on the door to victory the Carrmen tightened their defense and checked further attempts by the enemy. Thus the game ended with Harvard avenged of their 3 to 2 defeat of last year...
...plus side, the recovery of Britons in adversity was universally reported to be phenomenally quick, at least as far as non-military enterprises were concerned. Large London department stores like Bourne & Hollingsworth and Peter Robinson opened twelve hours after being bombed, with piles of debris covered over in some cases by flags. Damaged goods went on sale. One punning Londoner cracked: "It's bomb marché in Oxford Street this week...
...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...