Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aimed at the Settlement screamed over it. there were gruesome accidents. The Chinese motorman of a Shanghai trolley car, seeing that a big bomb was going to land in the street ahead of it, applied his brakes and yelled warnings to his 14 passengers, clanged his bell. An instant later the bomb exploded 20 feet in front of the trolley, blew it to blazes, killing the motorman, all his passengers and some people standing in the street, while other pedestrians who miraculously escaped found their clothes soaked by the spurts and splashes of victims' blood. Veteran U. S. Marines...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...taking the whole affair very nonchalantly when they are not in mass demonstrations. The Japanese very deservedly have the reputation of being exceptionally courteous to foreigners. This courtesy is still present under the war situation, although every now and then some overworked official drops the veil for an instant to loose his pent up emotions...
...climbing to tear like clawing condors at the Japanese bombers' flanks. The Japanese wing leader signaled with a puff of smoke, all his following bombers let go their loads and zoomed upward to get away, but by a freak four Japanese craft were downed at the same instant, belched smoke and plunged earthward like meteors, streaming flames...
...traveling arsenal. Slogan of last week's show was "the trailer is here to stay," and show officials optimistically foresaw the day when cities would pay as much attention to their trailer parks as to their airports-would have gas, water, electricity and sewage disposal facilities laid for instant connection to the trailer house...