Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank, is today vice chairman of Bank of Manhattan Co. On Broadway he is known as Paul James whose lyrics, with music by his trim wife, Kay Swift, helped to make the first Little Show and Fine & Dandy successful. Last year he advised a House committee to cut the dollar's gold coverage from 40% to 35% or 30% and make up the difference in silver. He is now being considered by President Roosevelt as Undersecretary...
...cirrus clouds indicate that above ten miles winds blow steadily. Experts have been unable to sight any high-floating dust or haze to indicate any contrary condition. They therefore have predicted that if & when man can fly through the stratosphere, his going would be smooth as well as swift. Last week Dr. Charles Pollard Olivier, University of Pennsylvania astronomer, knocked this idea higher than...
...series of daily exercises the student is brought into contact with every idea and every method in the large repertory of the course; he is rsponsible for each such item of the examination, and he knows very well in that connection that the grading of his papers is both swift and sure, for an answer is either right or wrong...
...such backstage talk. There were some hurt prides in House and Senate but the President still held the whip hand over the Capitol. The pressure of public opinion was as strong as ever in his favor. Party patronage had yet to be distributed in a big way. The swift tempo of the first few weeks was over with the passage of emergency legislation but the change in Congressional pace did not signify a change in spirit. Most observers were agreed that the President could get anything he wanted throughout the special session...
...lead in the first period, Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison Square Garden crowd was throwing newspapers, programs, orange peels, cigarets, candy-wrappers on the ice when the swift pendulum that is the pattern of a close hockey game paused for a moment as Bun Cook of the Rangers scored the first goal. Cecil Dillon of the Rangers scored the second, a minute later, before the first period was three-quarters over. That settled the game. Discouraged as well...