Word: quickest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quickest killing was made by those who had sold the pound short-speculators and merchants who have been buying in Britain. The merchants had done this to protect themselves, in case of devaluation, from losses on goods ordered at the old rate of $4.03. The speculators had simply gambled on a fast profit. They made it. They had been able to sell short by putting up margins of as little as 25%, thus doubling their money. No one knew how big the short position in pounds had been. (One Briton gave the ridiculous estimate of ?2 billion...
...shortened paragraph, the carefully measured column, the 'punchy' sentence." The whole thing had reached its climax, he thought, in the new Cowles-published Quick-"a news digest of news digests." Wrote he: "One can easily imagine a digest of Quick (Quicker) and finally one of Quicker (Quickest). From Quickest to the nonreading of the news seems a logical next step...
...were tired of night sessions, tired of each other and dead tired of Majority Leader Scott Lucas' heavyhanded efforts to keep things moving. The nation's highest deliberative body was debating whether to extend ECA for 15 months. Oregon's Wayne Morse, always one of the quickest to anger, rose in shrill complaint...
Last week Parliament was bickering about the surest and quickest way to teach midwives analgesia (relief of pain without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than...
...found South Africa's economy, based primarily on its gold-mining industry, in deep trouble and short of dollars. Gold sales looked like the quickest solution. What disturbed the Fund more than the first sale was Havenga's apparent determination to make additional premium sales. If Havenga got away with it, there was no reason why other gold-producing countries, notably Canada, could not do the same thing...