Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commuters pulled off to a fast start and never relinquished their lead throughout the game. By the final bell Dudley had more than doubled its halftime lead of 11 points over Adams...
Police Expect Fast Results...
...Press, Sloan, like Fellow Draftsmen Glackens and Shinn, sketched the fires, suicides and parades which news photographers cover today. Of necessity they learned to select story-telling details and to set them down recognizably and fast. Later, under the leadership of Painter Robert Henri, they did much the same thing in oils, and dared to call it art. That threw the academic art world of the day into a righteous rage. Henri's group became the "Ashcan School," hooted at by almost everyone...
Times staffers had expected the change. In the last few months, while Boettiger has been away "on business," Mrs. Boettiger has practically taken over the job of running the paper. The Times has taken a good deal of running. Despite its fast growth, it is not yet making money, and two months ago it borrowed $200,000 from a bank, to get "an extra margin" of capital. "If we don't meet the payments," said Mrs. Boettiger, "we lose the plant and the newspaper." She doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house...
...economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep up, it was unofficially reckoned that the slide so far was as steep...