Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alpha rays are stopped by clothing, beta rays by slightly thicker materials. But if a tiny speck which generates one of them gets into the body, it may radiate quietly until it has started a cancer or done some quicker damage...
Said Bowles cheerfully: "[The new policy] means quicker settlement of wage problems. It means prompt price relief where hardship exists. . . . It means that the way is cleared for all-out production." What was more to the point, he finally admitted what businessmen have been wearily saying: OPA's cost absorption policy has reached its limits in many an industry, including household furniture, low-cost clothing and household appliances...
...Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...
...longest roles on record, crammed with quick-changes of costume and quicker ones of character, Actress Field (in private life, Mrs. Elmer Rice) shows astonishing verve and versatility. Only a step or two behind her in skill is Wendell Corey as the newspaperman. Not the least entertaining part of Dream Girl is its ingenious stagecraft: three sliding platforms on which Stage Designer Jo Mielziner has mounted all sorts of stylish and witty little sets, using normal lighting for Georgina's real life, a blue spot for her trances...
Professors, some of whom were hustled off from U.S. campuses at only 24 hours' notice, found their new students quicker and mentally tougher than their old, and ready to say so if they were either bored or unconvinced. Says University of Chicago's Dean John Dale Russell, who heads the faculty: "We have never been on the spot like this before, but we love...