Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME so chock-full of interestingly told news, you will have me applying to the commissaries, since my exchequer will not stand a subscription for each of the five members of my household. There is a scramble to see who shall be first to get the latest copy of prompt-arriving TIME. It usually results that "father" has to read the copy after everyone else has gone to sleep, with the consequence that "father" gets very little sleep that night...
...will thank you very much for a prompt reply to these questions...
Officiating in Belgrade Cathedral, Bishop Mardary voiced his joy at the Patriarch's prompt action, declared: "Jugoslavs firmly believe that the United States is destined to play a high, historic rÔle in consolidating the disrupted relations of mankind...
...minutes, threatening to revive China's boycott of Japanese goods, sarcastically observing. "If we believed everything the Japanese delegate told us we would be forced to believe that meek Japan is being devoured by ferocious China!" and hurling this challenge to the Council, "The time has now come for prompt and effective action by the League...
...need for such a school is best explained in the words of Dr. Glueck, a member of its faculty. He states that "We agree that speedy apprehension and prompt trial of a suspect has a salutary effect all round, but beyond that it is our wish to slow down rather than to speed up justice; namely in the imposition of penalty . . . The crux of the problem lies not so much in the definition of individual crimes, as in the presence or absence of scientific procedure when it comes to the sentencing of those found guilty." In other words the school...