Word: swiftly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hand in victory. Max Baer was born in Omaha in 1909. His 6-ft. father was a Jew of Alsatian stock. His 200-lb. mother was Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first...
...Congress also required the President to give "reasonable public notice" before making tariff agreements. This put an end to the possibility of swift and secret negotiations, without the howls and whines of industries about to suffer a tariff cut. The word "reasonable," however, looked like a joker. By adroitly interpreting it the President might start his negotiations in secret and postpone to the last minute that noisy period in which "any interested person may present his views...
...whatever between the anticipatory inventions of the great Frenchman and these fantasies." Wells admits his stories are intended to be only temporarily plausible; "they aim indeed only at the same amount of conviction as one gets in a good gripping dream." Surprisingly, he finds himself much more like Jonathan Swift, says "my early, profound and lifelong admiration for Swift appears again and again in this collection, and it is particularly evident in a predisposition to make the stories reflect upon contemporary political and social discussions." But old Author Wells is rationalizing long after the fact of young Author Wells...
...Geoffrey?" Fair visitors found all last year's good non-commercial exhibits repeated, some new ones added. Among the new commercials were John R. Thompson Co. (restaurants), with a big pier into the Lagoon on which there was free dancing; Standard Oil, with a big free animal show; Swift & Co., which had hired the Chicago Symphony to play every day for ten weeks. One of the difficulties about Fair-going last year was that a visitor had to do his long-distance tramping with a bottle in his pocket if he expected any refreshment stronger than beer. There...
...Elijah Swift, Jr., 2G, of Burlington, Vt., to be Assistant in Chemistry...