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Word: promptly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Week before he reopened his uncut Hamlet on Broadway, British Actor Maurice Evans was asked: "Who is the best Hamlet you've ever seen?" Prompt Evans retort: "I haven't got any mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...within a few weeks I am leaving for France to take service in the French Foreign Legion on the Western Front I would deeply appreciate a prompt remittal. I certainly hope that TIME will reach the fire trenches "Somewhere in France." Is TIME on the "approved" list of French imported magazines? I sincerely hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...martyrdom and thus rally waning popular support for the regime? Was it another Reichstag fire? What about the mysterious and providential changes in plan? What about the fact that not a single big-shot Nazi remained in the beer hall even though the Führer's prompt departure was unforeseen? Despite these startling coincidences, this theory was hardly more credible than the German charge that Winston Churchill sank the Athenia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Eleven Minutes | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...YORK--The expected repeal of the Arms Embargo by the House of Representatives this week may break through the indecision that has stalemated the Stock Market for more than a month. Prompt action by the House, Wall Street experts say, will find the stock list in a strong position to surge forward...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Legion passionately recommended: Prompt expansion of the regular Army and National Guard; a program to insure a supply of raw and manufactured material to equip and supply land & sea forces of at least 1,000,000 men for a period of not less than one year. It also demanded a Navy second to none, bases at Guam and Wake Islands, an impregnable Panama Canal, an Alaskan National Guard. With no less passion it asked for legislation to outlaw the Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Seven-Toed Pete | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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