Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grappling with the 20th question ("Is a porpoise a fish or a mammal?") and were about to turn to page 55 for the answers, they were arrested by still another question. It read: "What is the Priceless Ingredient of every product? (See page 55 for the answer)." In an instant the puzzlers saw that the 21st question was part of a half-page advertisement for Squibb Aspirin. On page 55 they learned not only that a porpoise is a mammal, but that "The Priceless Ingredient of Every Product is the Honor and Integrity of its Maker. . . ." In every issue...
...brilliant tennis, he suddenly found his game. His backhand, weak the day before, was suddenly a magnificent offensive stroke. His drives lashed the uttermost corners of Crawford's back court. Crawford said afterward that Vines's first serve "seemed to hit the court the same instant it left the racket." Vines followed it to the net and smashed Crawford's returns so hard that the ball kicked up tufts of grass. Crawford put socks over his shoes in the second set. Like his gestures with his racket, it did no good. When Vines...
...picked up smoothly behind him. At the half mile, Yale, at Stroke John H. ("Tiger") Jackson's faster beat, had caught up and got a deck's length lead. What happened then made it clear how the race would end. Yale hung even for an instant, then dropped back. Killer Cassedy had not raised his beat but the Harvard boat, with a splendid run between strikes, pulled out ahead, a quarter length at the mile, a full length at two miles, three lengths and a quarter at the finish in a lane of yachts whose whistles saluted...
...Portofino. then Dastur took the lead. With a furlong and a half to go, Dastur was still ahead with Miracle running second and April the Fifth third. In black & pink, Jockey Fred Lane on the Walls horse and Jockey Wragg, riding Miracle, challenged at the same time. For an instant, the three horses were running head to head in an utter silence that had fallen when the crowd saw that Orwell had been left behind in the straightaway. April the Fifth crossed the finish first, less than a length ahead of Dastur, who was leading Miracle by a head...
Long years ago the future President Paul Doumer attended the wedding of the future dean of Paris cameramen. Last week it came about that bearded Photographer Piston was standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...