Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intent of the treaty is of course to make it impossible for Germany to use her small army as a training school for warriors, something which might easily be done if quick turnovers in enlistment were allowed...
...more I thought of it, the less I liked its appearance," Mr. Patten testified. Why should Treasurer Upham dispose of bonds belonging to the G. O. P. so privately when there was a quick public market for them any day? Mr. Patten worried about it in bed that night. Next day he rid himself of these queer bonds by giving them as his subscription to the Evanston Hospital...
...Hoover, certainly, who is a remarkable administrator, with a talent for quick decisions and an unflagging interest in detail...
...that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that has made her so--well, that has made her. She twinkled at a dear old roue and the lady that is always nearby said: "She's got an idea." We didn't look quick enough, maybe...
...characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver of the poinsettia to botany) put him in the Army Topographical Corps. He explored in the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, returned to Washington...