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Word: quickers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost tripled. We know that TIME Air Express is looked forward to each week by almost every U.S. family living in Latin America and the West Indies and by thousands of other business, political and cultural leaders. We have watched its operations expand to include special printings (for quicker delivery) in Mexico City, Bogota, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires. . . . But the great question is whether TIME-by-Air is helping to bring Americans of both continents closer together-and now the time has come to take stock frankly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...because you've quit thinking. And that's what has happened to the Jerry. He's quit thinking, and I wouldn't mind telling TIME that I'll take on a company of young, fresh, inexperienced Hitler -zealots and finish them with my platoon quicker than you can get a squad of this 'demoralized' kind blasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 19, 1944 | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...river, maybe we'll know," he said. "We're just getting our December bodies up now. But they come up quicker in the springtime-men face down, women face up. If she's in the river maybe we'll know in May. If there's a thunderstorm we'll know before that. An odd thing, the way thunder will bring them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Invisible Girl | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Navy doctors call it "fourway infusion." Working on marines wounded at Guadalcanal, surgeons found that some patients would bleed to death if they waited for plasma to dribble in through one tube, developed a quicker method of transfusion. Last week in Manhattan Captain French Robert Moore, a surgeon who is a veteran of Guadalcanal and Tarawa, described the new method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halfway Up From Bedlam | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...have them, of course. That's all I care to say on the subject." The World War I Peace-Shipper continued: "My message to young people, those in uniform and those out of uniform, is simply this: find out the cause of war. That will stop wars quicker than anything I know. I could tell them, but it doesn't seem to work that way, somehow. They must find out for themselves." Asked what he considered the greatest single postwar problem, he replied: "Go to work. That's the answer to everything-. . . greeds, creeds, and boundary lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Casualties | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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