Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoy baiting the students, but the majority of the force respect students as much as any other group of residents. Statements from Headquarters officials vouch for this attitude. The attitude at Headquarters is one of cooperation and assistance that should not be spurned by the University. If the prompt action taken by the Corporation in sending out the questionnaire and pertinent information on registration regulations is any indication, Harvard is ready to cooperate. It is to the students' best interests to fill out the questionnaire immediately and thus further show their desire for a reconciliation with the city authorities. Then...
...over C in the International Code of Flag Signals. The N flag is blue-and-white checkered; the C has five horizontal stripes, the middle red, flanked by two whites, the outsides blue. Both are rectangular. The message, in any language: "In distress. Need prompt...
...week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
...shape of fallen timber is shown by the almost total loss of the 2,300 acre Harvard forest in Petersham where between five and ten million board feet of lumber are down. In an attempt to preserve the safety of lives and property in this region by prompt emergency measures Ward Shepard '10 Director of the Harvard Forest, is in Boston today to confer with Harry Hopkins, head of the W. P. A., and state officials...
...order from PWAdministrator Ickes-acting at President Roosevelt's express bidding-telling a subordinate to give "prompt attention" and "right of way" to two new PWA bridges for Maryland...