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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...placing the rubber stamp of official censorship on the Harvard Dramatic Club's play, "Fiesta", the Boston city authorities have adduced evidence to bolster the suspicion of their fair-minded intelligence in matters which they say affect public morality. Their action clicked with that quick efficiency which is prompted by eagerness, or at least by a thorough relish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CENSOR NONSENSE | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...forth, last week, between the pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...fought back by putting smart reporters on her shady fiscal trail, exposed her. Amid the grand sensation of last week another purveyor of expensive liquids, Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy, was dragged into the mess. He has only recently been named Minister of Agriculture, and jealous enemies were quick to charge that because a newspaper in which he is largely interested, Le Quotidien, had made a joint circulation drive with La Gazette du Franc, he must have been at least privy to the swindle. Incomplete investigation seemed to show that this slur upon the Cognac Tycoon was baseless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: American Methods! | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...give latitude to non-Dean's List men when they momentarily reach the mark does not imply a withdrawal of rank from those men who fall below the Third Group in November or April. High standing is too desirable and not to be encouraged by quick reward and too rare to have its perhaps momentary lapse incur a penalty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEAN'S LIST PRIVILEGE | 12/15/1928 | See Source »

Crosby, visiting forward, scored the Engineers' only score during the first 30 seconds of play in the second period, while two Harvard men were off the ice. Two minutes later, Giddens tallied twice in quick succession, one unassisted and one on a rebound from Tudor's stick. The Crimson captain added two more counters to the total on passes from Holbrook and Stanley respectively, and Everett scored on a rebound to close the period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SEXTET WINS OPENER, 9 TO 1 | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

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