Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veterans facing immediate financial problems were able to find prompt aid here in Cambridge through an emergency channel set up by the University chapter of the American Veterans Committee, as AVC officials reported that their efforts to alleviate the situation had been in most cases successful...
...bond before entering, guaranteeing his accountability; he could not skip payment if he wanted to. In such circumstances, the University could afford to give its negligent members the benefit of the doubt and cease regarding them as potential chiselers. If it feels that extra fines are necessary to ensure prompt payment, a second notice would serve both as a warning, and as a partial cover for the errors even Lehman Hall must make...
Ammonium nitrate's outwardly peaceful molecule perpetually strains with suppressed desires. The oxygen and hydrogen atoms are not combined with each other, as their natures prompt them to be. They fret in frustrated juxtaposition, kept from an explosive embrace by a frangible barrier of chemical propriety...
Since no diplomas can go to men who owe any amount on their term bills, all those who expect to graduate should be prompt in making payment...
...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...