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Word: quickening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a band of musical orphans and another of Salvation Army players to quicken their steps, 250 young Manhattanites marched on Fifth Avenue last Sunday carrying an average of 28 Bibles apiece. They were under the auspices of the New York Bible Society, and the 7,000 Bibles were presents to the management of 53 hotels in the metropolis, for distribution in bed-chambers. This consignment of Bibles brought the number distributed by the Society in hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bedroom Bibles | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

...that its citizens are taken in the North for Virginians. They are also tired of explaining that Natural Bridge is not in their State, and furthermore, that they do not raise peanuts. These reasons are rational enough. Senator Chilton also ventures the opinion that "maybe a new name would quicken the spirit that languishes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KANAWHA A STATE OF MIND | 4/28/1925 | See Source »

Live within the sense they quicken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/15/1925 | See Source »

...because he wishes to convey those emotions to other people . . . and he will change the emotions of other people. But emotions, unlike opinions, such as Mr. Sinclair's, are products of gradual evolution and are the common heritage of the times. The effect of art, is often too quicken the response of emotions already possessed not to change them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT PRICE ART, MR. SINCLAIR? | 3/23/1925 | See Source »

Which will quicken the heart in its beating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/25/1925 | See Source »

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