Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the next train came in Premier Bennett again had to hasten down to the last car where he said, "How's your father?" to toothbrush-mustached Malcolm MacDonald...
...Canada are negotiating a treaty on which depends New York's State-owned, State-operated power project at Massena Point. A hitch with the State Department has developed on the State's share of the cost. The Democratic nominee suggested a meeting with the Republican nominee to "hasten the initiation of this vast project which means cheap transportation . . . cheap electricity for homes, farms and industries . . . and employment for thousands of workers." Obvious was the New York Governor's intention to put Water Power squarely up to his Republican opponent as a concrete campaign issue. President Hoover replied...
...Hindenburg's decree lifting the ban on Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted "Storm Troops" (TIME, June 27). In Munich, hot-headed Bavarians talked of remaking their Free State into a Bavarian Monarchy, restoring the House of Wittlesbach. Deposed Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria naturally tried to hasten the popular ferment, stopped just short of high treason to the German Republic...
Promptly France announced that she too would hasten to begin schedules, at first with monthly crossings between Senegal, West Africa and Natal, Brazil...
...unguarded moment of enthusiasm, said to Whitman. Since, however, Byron has written, I can only say that Mr. Agee has deliberately invited comparison, and that he does not come off at all badly from the ordeal. And in case I haven't made my point clear, I hasten to add that this is intended to be very high praise. Certain it is, the poem blows through the pages of "The Advocate" with so authentic and Rabelaisian a gusto as nearly crinkles its decorous pages, and you will search far to find poetry as good as the last nine stanzas. There...