Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick, warm gesture was symbolic of everything that has happened here in the past two days...
...Roosevelts are quick to become parents. Franklin and Eleanor had been married 13 mos., 27 days when Anna arrived. Their children, with one exception, have been quicker. Anna bore her first 9 mos., 20 days after marriage. Elliott became a father 10 mos., i day after his first marriage, 9 mos., 17 days after his second. Franklin Jr. fathered Franklin III a year and 20 days after he married Ethel du Pont. Only James lagged behind. He had been a husband 21 months before he became a father...
Today at 49 Floyd Reeves is wiry, quick, dynamic. Facing his new job-to help draft a plan for helping Youth and see that it is carried out-he complained last week that Youth's opportunities were narrower than when he was a boy, suggested that Youth be allowed to vote at 18 in order to reduce the electoral odds now favoring oldsters...
...enemies to give him what he wants. In Nazi Germany this is done by keeping large numbers of men under arms, ready to strike on short notice. Nazi economy has long been attuned to a state of semi-mobilization, but other countries, which must be ready to meet any quick German thrust, find it expensive...
...available for serious and often whimsical scrutiny. A small piece by Winslow Homer entitled "Class Day at Harvard" should provide much amusement for seniors who are about to take part in that annual function a few weeks from now; and the Currier and Ives print called "Kiss Me Quick" is a fine example of a Victorian method of amatory advance--now unfortunately outmoded. On the other hand, there are many paintings in the exhibit which are worth serious consideration because of their intrinsic value as works of art. Such a one is Homer's watercolor, "The Berry Pickers," in which...