Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...Ability." Meantime at Atlanta, the Southeastern Conference shed a flicker of realistic light on the problem of professionalism by agreeing as follows: "Athletic ability should receive consideration ... in the assignment of scholarships. . . ." But the Conference was quick to hedge this frank position by resolving that "such assistance shall never be granted primarily as a reward for athletic services" and that it would include only expenses for books, tuition, board, lodging...
...meandering across the retina in irregular directions.* The entrance point of the optic nerve itself is taken as a point of reference. The distances and directions of the vein forks from this reference point provide coordinates which can be hooked together in a serial number for classified filing and quick comparison...
...Muriel Rukeyser was born in New York, attended Vassar, Columbia and the Roosevelt School of the Air, where she gathered material for the title poem in Theory of Flight. In his preface. Stephen Vincent Benet describes her as essentially an urban poet, her mind "fed on the quick jerk of the newsreel, the hard lights in the sky, the long deserted night-street, the take-off of the plane from the ground." The book contains 15 ''Poems Out of Childhood," the long "Theory of Flight," 14 short pieces that range from glimpses of a cinema and a burlesque...
Through the quick and unselfish efforts of Dr. Mendieta, and with the aid of Dr. Dodds of Princeton, the Cuba political horizon has cleared considerably. If the December elections come off as scheduled and with a minimum of violence and disturbance, Cuba will rapidly forge ahead and regain her former peace and prosperity. Her friendship and cooperation will be a vital and immeasurable aid to the United States in formulating and maintaining our Latin-American policy during the years to come...