Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While the Right Deputies thus foamed, M. Briand did some quick thinking. Making up his mind, he deliberately goaded them on: "What lies are these! What calumnies! You are seeking still to exploit the War atmosphere of hate and anger! You will not admit your lies are lies because you are politicians...
...talk this evening will be open to all members of the Union only. Drawings will be available for those who are quick and strong enough to secure them...
...unconscious boy's head was twisted so that his right temple lay uppermost. Two quick, accurate, preplanned incisions. A thin-lined six-inch triangle showed faintly. This the surgeon peeled back and let the flap lie out of the way. Then into the skull bone with the saw. Slow, careful rasping. A six-inch triangle lay loose, like a piece of cracker on gelatin. With a blunt instrument Dr. Dandy separated this piece of bone from the underlying, attached dura mater. Into that tough membrane, into the arachnoid tissue, into the pia mater-carefully, very carefully. Some blood. The mass...
...money to install his new invention and to give it proper publicity Bell was obliged to go lecturing. In Manhattan he got Charles A. Cheever and Hilborne L. Roosevelt to sink $18,000 there. The Western Union fought them, blocked them from going into hotels and railroad stations, where quick communication has always been wanted, profitable. (This early hostility has long given way to present comity.) The telegraph company got Thomas A. Edison to work out a rival means of telephoning. The two Manhattan men were glad to sell out to the parent Bell company. Young Theodore N. Vail came...
...such finical situations as a player's throwing his cap at a passing ball, two runners on one base, premature decisions (e. g., a bunt declared foul rolls fair), infield flies, balls batted out of sight. There is a catachism of 51 articles: "Don't be anxious, too quick, tactless, argumentative, vindictive, officious. . . . Remember the spectators. . . . Listen to reason. . . . Smile. ..." The crouching and erect postures are compared. The double-and single umpire systems are explained. Anecdotes abound. Upon the students completing the course with distinction, Professor Evans confers the degree of M. A.? Master Arbiter...