Word: quickener
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...words will pass from this scene like breath upon the winter air," he told glum Dutchess County Democrats. "And so they are unimportant, except to quicken the spirit of deep affection that Franklin Roosevelt inscribed in the hearts of his fellow...
...Federal Council of Churches gave a green light to Ku Kluxism when it launched its current 'Intensify Your Protestantism' campaign at its Pittsburgh meeting in December. . . .* The leaders [thus] called upon all the 'Heirs of the Reformation' to quicken into new and vigorous life their historic opposition to the Catholic Church...
...manners, the incidental commotion of Cousin Hattie's tombstone and the best of the rather too recurrent laughs about Harvard or New York. Despite the laughs, the Apleys in the play show traces of New York blood in their veins-just enough, while slightly clouding the tone, to quicken the tempo...
...five-man medical board turned in its fact-crammed report. For fathers the news was gloomy: combing the nation's 3,357,000 4-Fs would probably produce only about 200,000 fit for active service. Draft boards, already behind in their quotas, would have to 1) quicken the fast pace at which fathers are being inducted, 2) reclassify still more men-single and married-now classed as essential workers...
...young men like Captain Glenn Miller who can put aside the glamor and the big money of top-flight professional careers and enter upon the unexciting routine of an army band on army pay and throw into this new task such energy, enthusiasm and skill as to quicken the pulse and lighten the heart of everyone within hearing distance...