Word: quickers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...withers quicker than the rose." Courtney Milton...
...easy, conversational tone the President said that he had gratifying news from the iron, steel and textile industries about the workings of the NRA. This produced blank stares only until the quicker-witted correspondents started to laugh at the President's little joke. Seriously he then announced the exchange at 11:50 p. m. the night before of five sets of diplomatic notes at the White House between himself and chubby, thick-tongued Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Secretary of State Hull's absence from the U. S. left...
...industrial production which had left the nation's buying power, as represented by low wages, far behind. The rise in wholesale prices General Johnson called "appalling." Putting trade codes through the Washington mill had proved a slow, cumbersome process. Only one had been completed in six weeks. Something quicker, more drastic, more realistic was necessary to shore up the sagging foundation of national economy. Last week's proposal for a blanket work & wage agreement was the Administration's answer...
...have not seen anyone that I can conscientiously say is holding back,"* admitted the Recovery Administrator. "But I know that people who are just two jumps ahead of the bear are a whole lot quicker than when the bear falls back...
...mines were entirely finished. His sappers, tunneling under the Paraguayan positions, had sewn them thick with dynamite. To England, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico the League dispatched requests that each appoint an arbiter, announced that the arbitral board would be constituted within ten days. General Kundt was quicker than that. Bram! went his mines. The earth heaved. Paraguayan soldiers were lofted into the air like so many clods...