Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After these two contests, the most important matches of the season, with Dartmouth and Yale follow in quick succession. In view of the fact that one half of the season is already over, it is of interest to study the results which have been attained up to date...
...What is this 'Pertinax' like?" wondered, last week, admirers of the President. Friends of Editor André ("Perttinax") Géraud were quick to recall him as an active, married man, possessing no children and but one flourishing, likeable dog. Scarcely a statesman in Europe is too potent to be conscious whether he has just been praised or blamed by "Pertinax's" trenchant, independent pen, and most Great Men are careful to recognize him with a nod or smile, when he inevitably appears to cover any European event of first political importance...
Italy, on its 119,242 sq. mi. of mountainous country, supports a population of 39,989,385 souls. The support is poor. Half of the people work on farms. Most of the others work in factories. The factory workers, although quick, industrious and intelligent, are not robust. They can do only light work...
...there were Afghan amazons, the kind of women who, when a soldier is wounded, "come out to cut up what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...
...function is to handle the controls. Albert Henry Wiggin occupied this position at the Chase National Bank, from 1911 to 1918, and again from 1921 to 1926* under the title of President. He occupies it now, astute observers suspect, in his title of Chairman of the Board. Spruce and quick-witted, whenever he waves his malacca wand he waves it with invariable accuracy at whichever younger brother to Cinderella best deserves the good luck of recognition...