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Word: instantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only way to salute is with sharp, instant decision, like a semaphore signal, looking a man right in the eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/1/1918 | See Source »

...January, 1918; at that time, at least, he was convinced of the permanence of the Republic and hopeful for its development. Mr. Grant's long residence in England makes him a trust worthy interpreter of the English point of view; his advice ought to go far to-wards establishing instant cordiality between English and American officers...

Author: By David T. Pottinger ., | Title: Cheerfulness Dominant Strain of Current Graduates' Magazine | 3/26/1918 | See Source »

...take any particular delight in having Yale win. We want the Freshmen to administer to our friends a good drubbing and we think they can do it. But they can accomplish this only through the hardest kind of playing every minute of the game. There must not be an instant when a Crimson player slows up to take a rest, for that is always the time when the Yale bull-pup romps away with victory. If there is any man on the team who has an idea that he may become apathetic, let him inform the captain, for we want...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE ARENA | 2/16/1918 | See Source »

...waits for passage. In spite of the Administration's backing, little action has apparently been taken to hurry through this measure. Although we might condemn the lack of foresight in not providing for such a matter when the draft became law, yet the present need is for instant remedy. Within a short while, if we are to follow our schedule, another increment of draftees must be called out. Although there may be no necessity for summoning men outside of Class 1, yet a surplus in this division will do no harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMPLETE THE DRAFT | 2/6/1918 | See Source »

...extending to the stricken people every sort of succor or assistance that is open to us. The ties between Nova Scotia and its capital and our State and city are close and warm. The consequences of the disaster, in physical suffering and very likely in hunger, must be instant and terrible. Let us start our help at once. The railway and the sea should bear it even before set of sun. Boston Transcript...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Halifax. | 12/8/1917 | See Source »

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