Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourth day. Another 500 miles was behind the Pride of Detroit as she coasted to earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...
...Communist party has bitterly opposed the Government's policy toward China, M. Stalin vigorously defended the course which he has taken, after declaring that it has been and is as follows: 1) to support any considerable Chinese faction the activities of which are such that they tend to hasten the coming of a true revolution by the entire Chinese proletariat; 2) to withdraw support from Chinese revolutionary groups if and when they develop bourgois tendencies and desert the cause of proletarian revolt; 3) to expect that the Chinese revolution, in its true and final aspect, will be slow...
Rhineland Evacuation. M Briand, sitting up in bed, reputedly told Dr. Stresemann with great vehemence that France will not hasten her evacuation of the Rhineland until Germany carries out more fully her disarmament obligations (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). Dr Stresemann offered to produce photographs showing the destruction of German fortifications along the Polish frontier; but returned an evasive answer when M. Briand insisted that a French military commission be allowed to investigate the destroyed defenses in question...
...industry. Up to this time English films have been a drug on the market--even the English market. The populace, accustomed to circuses with their bread, cried for American productions. The populace shall be answered, for now England is to be blessed with a Hollywood, only, as the promoters hasten to add, it will be much better than Hollywood. Its location is to be Wembley, home of the recent exposition. And to Wembley the English players will betake themselves, each ready to devote himself to art. Under an English sun when there is a sun--they will emote...
...Vanity Fair, David Gray, novelist-protege of Editor Frank Crowninshield, Anglophile, told universities in general and philanthropists in particular that to hasten "America's intellectual Golden Age," what lacks is the Oxonian tinge. He said: "All Souls college at Oxford . . . is an exclusive club of intellectual swells, picked graduates of other colleges who live, at the expense of the foundation, in a kind of divine idleness...