Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magdalena has been Colombia's chief traffic artery. It was always silt-laden, a river continually chewing at its banks. The coming of steam made things worse; woodburning stern-wheelers stopped to cut into the tropical forests for fuel. That made for greater erosion, and also for a quicker rain runoff, with the result that the river could be high one day, low a few days later. Sandbars piled up so fast that steamers could not follow the same course from one day to the next...
...Said Chevalier this week: "Newspapers are quicker than violins in an orchestra . . . The news is at least premature...
...moviegoers, the decisions meant that they would get first-run pictures quicker in neighborhood houses at lower prices, and perhaps better movies. Without block booking as an automatic sales device for bad movies, Hollywood would have to jack up its standards all around...
...take but one little word of one syllable, for one is better than two; the shorter the word, the better it harmonizes with the work of the spirit. Such a word is this word GOD or this word LOVE. . . . [A single word] pierces the ears of the Almighty God, quicker than any long psalter unmindfully mumbled in the teeth. Therefore it is written that the short prayer pierces heaven...
...just what it takes to make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...