Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...provincial troops that seemed to have neither proper artillery nor planes, and prepare for a real defense at Paoting, 85 mi. southwest of Peiping, where modern divisions of Chiang's own army were being rushed. Japanese officers apparently expected to meet these well-equipped troops at any instant last week. Japanese scouting planes saw large numbers of anti-aircraft batteries, equipment that had been entirely unnecessary heretofore...
...different from the competent juveniles of Dead End (see p. 61) as rat biscuits are from tea biscuits, the tots of Make A Wish are discovered in a paradisal boys' camp, where Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes...
...fish swims and spread like the. wings of an airplane when the fish is in the air (see cut). With wings folded, flying fishes' scull themselves rapidly to the surface with their big tail fins and then shoot out into the air at a low angle. The instant their wings are clear of the water they unfold. What the fish do with their wings next seems to be any observer's guess. If the fins flap or flutter, the fish may be said to fly. If the fish hold their outspread fins stiffly, they may be said simply...
...tortured like a tin can in which a giant firecracker has burst. Pinned within it were four seriously injured survivors. The fifth survivor-a ten-year-old boy-was thrown free, escaped with bruises. Captain Dietz, also thrown free, was decapitated. The co-pilot and two passengers likewise met instant death...
...Teachers College pedagogs, who showed instant enthusiasm for his songs and will no doubt plug them tirelessly this winter, Mr. Caesar said: "Maybe these songs of safety will get me to Heaven when my hi-de-ho songs would be sure to send me to a hotter region...