Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie had become a top man in a Pyramid Friendship Club, a money snowballing craze which last week was sweeping across the country as the chain-letter game did 14 years ago. He was not the only man to make a fast buck. Another Detroiter got a bushel basket full of money in one evening, and gave away five-dollar bills as mementoes of the stirring occasion. People in Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and dozens of other U.S. cities and towns hit the jackpot too and found themselves in a delirious state of sudden solvency...
While the British still debated what to do, the harried German manager of the Kurbel acted fast. Handbills announced a new feature, Der Kupferne Berg (in English, The Hungry Hill), a dull B-picture about copper mining in Ireland...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick set off in his converted B-17 with his wife and a photographer for a fast look around South America...
First they compared what happened when the patient tried to swallow with what happens when a normal person swallows. Because ordinary X-ray movies were too fast, the doctors slowed them down to 60 a second. They found out what they wanted to know: one reason their patient was choking was that he could not raise his Adam's apple. But how to get his swallowing mechanism working again...
...said he, was like a baby who had been taking the bottle too fast; it had to have a chance to burp. The big question was: "Is it going to be just one little burp, or is it going to be a chronic hiccup which is going to kill baby...