Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these reasons, immediately after the Armistice, I recommended in effect that this division be sent home first of all American troops, that they be sent home in all honor, but, above all, that they be sent quick. The answer came that Marshal Foch would not, pending peace, approve the transfer of any division back to the United States. In answer, I told the American headquarters to say to Marshal Foch that no man could be respon sible for the acts of these Negroes toward French women, and that he had better send this division home at once. This brought...
...unbecoming. To many of us it appeared a shrewd Yankee trick, similar to those business coups whereby one company lures away the consulting engineer or sales manager who have been the mainstay of a rival concern. Yale was not so poor in dramatic talent as to need such a quick turnover in her dramatic teaching. The result was that many who do not know Woolley or knowing him, have no great liking for him personally, used his resignation as their excuse to protest against the tendency on the part of a small group of loyal alumni to use the wealth...
...Deal, England, steel skeletons of houses were arising last week, were being fleshed with compressed cork, tegumented with an inch and a half of concrete from "cement guns." Slow to burn, sound proof, cheap and quick to build with unskilled labor, 25% easier to heat than brick, stone or timber, the cork abodes were hailed as a solution of the housing problem in industrial areas...
Died. Herbert Quick, 64, editor, author; in Columbia, Mo., of a heart attack. From 1909-16, he edited Farm and Fireside; during the War, he served on the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, was Chairman of the Far Eastern division of the Red Cross. His best-known novel is Vandemark's Folly...
...University golf team ended its New York week-end unscathed, after defeating Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton in quick succession...