Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this particular time nor in this place. It does wish, however, to indicate the gratefulness with which "The Road to Xanadu" should be accepted by undergraduates of the university-undergraduates especially because they are the ones who are least likely to commend painstaking research and those who are quickest to dismiss anything scenting of long labor as being pedantical and therefore unworthy of enthuslastic praise. Here is a book which had its origin among dusty shelves but which by virtue of a creative mind, tuned to analysis, has been transformed into something very remote from barren bookishness. The favor...
German pre-War commercial greatness was notoriously due, in part, to the fact that German businessmen were quickest to present the ultimate consumer with exactly what he wanted to buy under exactly the name and guise to which he was accustomed. Therefore, as the newest Hamburg-American Liner steamed toward New York harbor on her maiden voyage last week, the name painted at her keen bow and across her neat stern was, of course, New York...
...pitiable folk, for they will not understand the astonishing thing he has now done-written a book of modern times with all the glamour upon it that was on Messer Marco Polo, The Wind Bloweth and his other tales of days long gone. His warmest admirers will be quickest to see that he has not done this rich thing without overdoing it occasionally-slipping over briefly into unredeemed melodrama, laying on a few too-thick bits of the Biblical locution; but in the main they will be delighted and amazed to see in this, his best work yet, the subtle...
...Echo had started three years before, but failed quickly, when the Herald was brought into the field. In the first year of its existence the Herald did many things that advertised it all over the country. The city dailies gave it credit for getting out "extras" in the quickest time ever known in the newspaper world...
...impatience of undergraduates with the slow development of the tutorial system is but natural; yet it must be admitted that development has been almost as rapid as the solution of the problems of adaptation and tutors has admitted. To press boldly for great changes, however, is often the quickest means of obtaining some advance. Undergraduates, therefore, will probably insist more and more that the tutorial system be extended, that it receive a proportionate emphasis in the administration of scholastic discipline and honors, and that course requirements be greatly reduced...