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Word: swiftness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint appeal of the concert must rest on an impressionistic, rather than a strictly critical basis: The Choral at its best was light, gay, swift-moving; the Band maintained the joyous excellence which has become its peculiar property...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 12/6/1947 | See Source »

This week, Arthur Vandenberg stepped down from his seat as the Senate's presiding officer to open floor debate on the bill. In a full-dress speech as the Republican Party's chief spokesman on foreign policy, he urged its swift passage out of a "self interest which knows ... we cannot indefinitely prosper in a broken world." Swift passage was almost certain. On this program, there was little disagreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Bostonian and a graduate of Harvard, where he made freshman letters in football, and track, Joe Spang, now 54, got his start shaving hogs for Swift & Co. He was Swift's vice president in charge of sales when Gillette hired him away in 1938 at $45,000 a year (present salary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Sharp as a Razor | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...issue was decided early when the swift Yale forwards repeated by-passed the Crimson halfback line, which failed to cover on defense and also clobbered up their own attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Jinx Upsets Booters Again in 2-1 Heartbreaker | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

...willful destruction of Yale students or impromptu decoration of the Eli stronghold over the coming weekend will provoke swift retribution from University Hall, warned Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of the College, yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suspension Punishment for Eli Vandalism, Says Bender | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

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