Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President cabled Governor General Leonard Wood, a convalescent from an operation for hernia,, at Manila: "Earnestly hope for your quick, complete recovery. Glad your health good. Hope nothing interferes with the splendid services you are rendering...
...quick succession, the Senate and House Agriculture committees reported favorably the revised McNary-Haugen bill. But how to get a vote with so much other important legislation pending? There now appeared one morning after a fashionable dinner at which he had been the lion, the Vice President of the U. S. A banker, Mr. Dawes has nevertheless allowed his blessing to rest on the McNary-Haugen scheme. A man of great resourcefulness, he whiffed the political air and he smelled a bill dear to "big business." That was the McFadden branch banking bill, with which is involved the fortunes...
...interview with a Crimson reporter before the lecture, Leys said that the Chinese had showed no hostility to him as an American, and that the present danger to foreigners and foreign legations is caused by the Chinese leaders, men of no position who are trying to get rich quick by taking over foreign concessions. He added that Chinamen of established positions are afraid that the Chinese will win, depriving them of their jobs. As for the possibility of the Chinese uniting in a war against foreigners, Leys said that it was doubtful since they were handicapped by the lack...
...Filling a long-felt need in the life of the University, the News so expanded that other colleges were quick to follow suit. The Harvard Crimson appeared in 1879, and a year later, the first issue of the Cornell Daily Sun was published,"--Yale Daily News...
...Harvard horsemen were better mounted than the gunners, although then ponies had only a week of training. They stood the strain of hard riding well, end were very quick in executing the short turns necessary in the cramped arena...