Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went with him. And the sheriff, well, he lost out all around, but then I guess he deserved...
...cooperation in its work, for on its success, he declared, "depends the pacific equilibrium of the entire world." "We do not expect from you," he continued, "the unlocked for miracle of the reparation problem, but we hope with sincere confidence that your competency, experience and authority will concentrate to hasten the result toward which we are bending all our efforts...
...threshold of government. We may be called upon in the next few days to take on our shoulders the responsibilities of office. We shall take it. Not because we want it. Has anyone here been so foolish as to hasten the demise of a father who is about to leave him a bankrupt estate ? We know there are risks on every side, but if there are risks there is also a cause." Thus spake Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a Labor rally...
This is a South Sea Island book. In addition it is, categorically speaking, what is known as a "personal record" or a "human document." Having thus damned it one must hasten to award to it a very high degree of praise. As the unknown author points out, those who have given the South Seas their vogue in the literature of the day are essentially visiting journalists; nor does he except R. L. S. This book, on the contrary, is made up of a series of letters addressed to a friend, Mr. Bohan Lynch, which cover a period of some nine...
...football. Thus while crew at one end of the scale is falling into line, there is a feeling in some quarters that the power and responsibility of the coach in football have reached their zenith. It is unlikely that they will grow much more. But an attempt arbitrarily to hasten their decline, if, in fact, a decline is advisable, would be idle and harmful...