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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon afterward, however, the wrathful telephone-women of Paris united to defend their nimbleness and honor, and hurled the counter charge that they could not make quick connections with antiquated equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Smart Citizens | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...harbor nearby. When the air surrounding them became charged with phosgene vapor in the minute proportion of one-half gram per cubic yard they went suddenly limp, as the poison acted on their lungs. Invisible swords in the hands of cowardly assassins would not have been so quick, so deadly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Magic at Hamburg | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Charles liked his leech. The man had a visible vitality which often translated itself into swift rages and quick passes with the dagger at his side. It is not recorded that Dr. Harvey's blade penetrated anything more eventful than frogs, birds and an occasional cadaver. But these things it penetrated so shrewdly that the doctor had an idea. It was not, solely, his idea, but rather an astounding improvement on the theories of his teacher, Dr. Hieronymus Fabricius of Aquapendente. This doctor lectured at the school of physic at Padua, Italy, and the inquisitively inclined can still visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 21, 1928 | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...right, Mr. Jurado, you can drop it out two club's lengths." The little man smiled, got up, and placed at a spot indicated to him by the officials a golf ball which had been jammed against a leg of the bench. He played it with a quick stroke onto the green ahead of him. The crowd moved forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Sandwich | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

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