Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Away back in Teheran, capital of Persia, Premier Reza Khan grew irate. In the Majlis (National Assembly), he declared that the Shah had been requested to return. He added significantly that pressure would shortly be made to hasten his return...
...quite realize that in time the Japanese people will themselves accomplish restoration of their cities and institutions which have been destroyed. However, I shall regard it as a great privilege to be permitted to hasten the day when your university, which stands among the foremost institutions of learning in the world, will again be provided with adequate library facilities...
...would callously knife a tradition of American humor. Deprived of their livelihood, a score of humorists will commit hari-kari, with a jokebook in their hands and a smile on their lips. The American nation, grossly abused in its privilege of laughing at the "furriner's" English, will hasten the Pacific world into war. With Irwin as general, a brigade of "colyumists" will scourge Japan from end to end. And in America universal mourning will reign, for one-fourth of the national stock of jokes will have been wiped out overnight. More than a ready use of "honorables" and ability...
...action was taken entirely on the volition of the General Electric Co. Nevertheless, various political groups, particularly the Federal Trade Commission, will probably hasten to "claim credit'? for dissolving the "Electrical Trust...
...senior belongs. ¶In honor of Mexican Independence Day, President Coolidge sent a telegram to President Obregon expressing "cordial felicitations and fervent wishes for the continued prosperity of your great and friendly republic." ¶ Following a cruise aboard the Mayflower, the President telegraphed Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to hasten back from a vacation in California. When the Secretary arrived, the President intrusted him with the job of forming a commission to evaluate the Navy's needs in regard to aircraft, submarine, surface craft, in order that the Navy budget for 1925-26 may be intelligently...