Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Affronted to the quick, Herr Schuerff caught the first train back to Vienna. There news of the event was received in Parliament "with laughter." President Hainisch, however, was with difficulty restrained from challenging Professor Guertler to a duel. Instead he decided to demand a personal retraction...
...LIFE-Herbert Quick -Bobbs-Merrill ($5). A posthumous autobiography of extraordinary interest and literary merit...
...visual and muscular reaction. His success comes without the need of hard thought and practice in overcoming the details--he does them instinctively. When he tries coaching he may be successful with that rare bird, one of his own kind, but he cannot impart his strength, imitative ability and quick reaction to the average man and he has never gone clear through be difficulties and mental processes which the average man must master to become proficient at his position. The natural player depends mainly on physical example, which is only part of the story...
Corbett of Pittsburgh placed sixth, and two Syracuse men. Bill and Rupert, followed in quick succession...
...Brooklyn rushed reporters. They interviewed the prodigy-a spindling girl of twelve, physically immature, with solemn eyes, a quick tongue, a shrill treble voice. Her father explained how inspiration comes...