Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There wasn't much time, even though he'd been so early. The sound of the crowd flowed into the room, pushing everything else into an undertone. It made his stomach tighten even more, and he felt as if time had suddenly begun to quicken, pulling him along with it. Like water getting closer and closer...
Cantonese form the majority of Chinese living abroad and these are sure to quicken their cash contributions of millions to the Generalissimo now that Canton is at stake. White correspondents in Tokyo flashed that the Japanese would have preferred a European war to the peace of Munich, since war would have completely tied British hands in the Far East. Tokyo was watching Joseph Stalin as well as Neville Chamberlain, and when the purge of the Soviet Far East Army officers got under way recently, Japan concluded she need not keep so many troops in North China and Manchukuo facing...
...businessman, would feel queer in the false beard and cheesecloth garment which a small-town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread Throughout the World the Glory of the Light That All Nations May See and Know Him. It had its genesis a year ago when Pennsylvania's Bishop Francis Marion Taitt, ordinarily a scholarly, retiring churchman, marched...
...education which is important and effective is self-education, and a student acquires knowledge and learns only by working things out for himself. The only way he can quicken his own mental processes, follow an author's line of thought and understand a topic is by reading and analysing the author's original work as a whole and as distinguished from a digest thereof...
Bandmaster Rudy Vallee: "While a brunette does quicken my heart more than a blonde, yet I have cared deeply for several blondes and still enjoy their company greatly. A woman's physical charm is the thing that first attracts me, but unless she has many other wonderful qualities that my mother has, I am afraid we could never be happy...