Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given official London the jitters. He has also given suave, poker-faced Joachim von Ribbentrop the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on Special Mission-the special mission being to see what Britannia has to say about Germany's naval demands. Last week Ambassador von Ribbentrop, after a quick dash to London, was able to tell the Realmleader in his Bavarian retreat that His Majesty's Government seemed ready to capitulate, if Herr Hitler would make a slight amendment in his demand which could be palmed off to the British public as a concession...
...teeth, athletic directors, educational cinemas. They incline to be irritable, neurotic, seclusive, but are lonely less frequently than divorced men. They want steady, permanent work, have less initiative, resolution and self-confidence than the other groups, but like change, outside work, think well of being railway conductors. They are quick to argue but dislike argument. They study their problems alone but prefer not to take chances alone. They pretend to be radicals but are actually conservative. They like to make radio sets, repair clocks, drive automobiles; are not much interested in languages, philosophy, music, literature...
...Lode was made in March 1873 when the Consolidated Virginia mine opened a silvershot vein 54 ft. thick. Before it was played out the vein yielded $190,000,000 in pure bullion and made a onetime Irish immigrant clerk one of the richest men in the greatest get-rich-quick era in U. S. history. Like many another bonanza king, John William Mackay beat a quick & gaudy path to the capitals of Europe but he did leave an enduring monument to his amazing energy-Postal Telegraph...
Uncounted thousands of the quick and the dead still lay last week in the ruins of Quetta in British Baluchistan, smeared by earthquake last fortnight (TIME, June 10). Against the menace of fire, flood, jackals, looters and cholera, a British division surrounded the town and dug frantically in the ruins. But when a rumor spread that the British planned to dynamite and abandon Quetta, natives set up a mighty howl, pointed out that in other earthquakes men had been dug out alive as long as a week afterward...
Princess Mary recovered from the appendectomy uneventfully. But her quick excitability and easy fatigue did not disappear. The slightest exertion set her atremble. These and other peculiarities led Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's personal physician, Dr. Knuthsen and Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill, an Australian who achieved eminence as a London thyroid surgeon, to conclude that Princess Mary suffered with exophthalmic goitre...