Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approaching, nor in any way spatially related, for they are not in the same time-setting. . . . [Similarly] the stars and nebulae are all traveling at dizzy speeds along unknown and unpredictable paths . . . each in a different direction, whereof we can merely deduce the radial component at some long past instant. . . . The popular statements as to the distances of stars and nebulae, the size of the galaxy, and especially the 'expansion of the universe'. . . are foolish...
...Justice had for two months been hot on the trail of Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis, wanted for robbery, kidnapping and murder. Few days before the Karpis capture Director Hoover chartered a twin-motored Douglas transport plane in New York, flew to New Orleans, told his pilots to be on instant call at an inconspicuous hotel...
...duty at Buckingham Palace last week-end were two gauntleted motorcyclists from the Army Service Corps ready to rush dispatches to King Edward's week-end hideaway, Fort Belvedere, the instant they arrive instead of waiting for the evening messenger, whose duty it has always been to carry the day's dispatches to the King out of town. In deference to Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha's safety campaign (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), the motorcycle messengers were expressly ordered to obey all traffic laws. Edward's new motorcyclists will be listed as King...
...From the instant the Potomac touched shore, the President plunged into the real game of politics. Waiting for him at Fort Lauderdale were Governors McNutt of Indiana and Sholtz of Florida. Next day at Warm Springs, Ga. his political business was with Archibald D. Lovett and Marion H. Allen, anti-Talmadge leaders in Georgia...
Fifteen minutes later, in Essen, Germany in the person of Adolf Hitler entered the largest single factory room in Europe, the sooty locomotive assembly plant at the Krupp works. At that instant every whistle in Germany blasted, for a full minute. Then came a full minute of silence. Not an automobile, not a pedestrian budged. In Berlin the Rev. Stewart Winfield Herman, acting pastor of the American Church, was slapped smartly in the face for not raising his hand in the Nazi salute during this period of ecstasy...