Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grounds for Divorce causes a husband to neglect his wife, who throws ink at him and deserts. On the eve of his second wedding, she returns to ask his advice, as a prominent lawyer for divorce, on the quickest method of shedding a second husband in order to marry a third. Disturbed at the delay, his new fiancee also throws ink; his wife's husbands turn out to be fictitious; and reunion is effected...
...interest in speakers, controversial speakers draw the largest crowds, as evinced by the Dr. Grant and Dr. Straton meetings. Of course men like Bishop Lawrence, who hold a great position in the Church, are not included in this discussion. But the quickest way to interest the undergraduates is to get them arguing. And arguing is the only way they will ever come to cement their plastic beliefs. It is good for them to disagree, for only by refuting someone else can they convince themselves. Some may believe that argument and controversy have no place in true religion. If that...
...industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that the quickest way to secure governmental regulation of any industry, and thus further public interests, is to foster the growth of monopolistic power have been proved specious too often to bear reapplication...
...Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann, in a speech to the Reichstag, sounded a new tune on an old trumpet by remarking that "the quickest solution of the reparations problem is the solution that suits us best...
...University has no class rushes or mud-battles, considered in many colleges the quickest and surest way of bringing a class face to face. The traditional Harvard man is supposed to feel that he has outgrown that sort of thing. If so he has forgotten, in his maturity, to find a satisfactory substitute for the fellowships of the free...