Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newspapers depend on the telephone perhaps more than any industry for the swift transmission of their business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...
...Department of Commerce, quick at figures, last week announced the amount that foreign nations had borrowed from the U. S. during 1927. The sum was $1,574,960,575, the highest ever borrowed in one year. And the year was the fifth that money loaned on foreign securities had surpassed a billion dollars. Those years were 1916 (during the War), 1924, 1925, 1926. For 1926 the sum had been...
...working out his sketches. From this great care, however, arose his single technical fault, for in order to keep the outline workable from day to day, he could use paints which dried very slowly. Then, when the sketch finally suited him, he would coat it over with French quick-drying oil. This oil is really a lacquer which dries out itself very quickly, but does not affect the paints lying beneath it. If such a painting is subjected to rough handling or sudden changes of temperature it is more liable to develop cracks than one all of whose constituents...
...your advertisements that TIME is written for "active persons of high intelligence and quick apperceptions . . . not for the masses...
England. Sudden snow, quick-freezing sleet caught Londoners so unawares that within 24 hours 30 hospitals were tending 1600 patients injured by slips and falls...