Search Details

Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...TIME, Oct. 18), which is just across the river from Hankow. When Minister Lampson left for Hankow "on his way to Peking" last week, he went 1,500 miles "out of his way," if he ever intends to go to Peking at all. Next day the press of Shanghai, quick to take a hint, sadly urged its readers to "make the best of the fact that Great Britain is eventually going to recognize the Cantonese Government at Wuchang." Meanwhile from Canton there set out Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the first President of China (Jan.-Feb. 1912), famed revolutionary statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Best of Evils | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...were the conventional displays prescribed by U. S. copy-artists - tobacco broadsides, department store revelations, bank announcements. But up in the corner of one page was the advertisement of Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker, who was either the shrewdest of merchants or blessed with the good offices of the most quick-witted of advertising advisers. Beside a delicate spider-scrabble of Japanese characters stood Musa-Shiya himself, fretted forth in blackest ink with his bare toes tweaking at each other through their sandal-thongs, his best kimono hanging in polite folds and his two hands clasped solicitously beneath an amiable squint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pidgin Ad | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOATIN' - Herbert and Edward Quick - Holt ($5). Vivid history of a colorful epoch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Cream... | 12/13/1926 | See Source »

...slashing men down the ice and work well with each other as a scoring combination. Clark's aggressive play in the defense line may win him a place on the first outfit, but he will have the considerable task of replacing Ellison and Howard, both of whom are experienced quick puckmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM OF VETERANS WILL FACE M. I. T. IN OPENING ICE TILT | 12/9/1926 | See Source »

...have been sought after a number of years by various collectors and although they were recently located by an agent of the Historical Society, they were bought up by another man before funds were available to the Society. Their second reappearance on the market was the signal for a quick purchase by the agent of the business libraries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Previous | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | Next