Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They're gentlemen--at times," she commented with a quick glance at her escorts. "But the other night I made one walk all the way home because he showed up in white shoes." Her escorts glanced smugly at their well polished Oxfords and inhaled their carnations...
Hopkins admitted that the public is quick to suspect tyranny in an administrative service that becomes too powerful. "The word 'bureaucracy' makes many people think of a swarm of undisciplined office-holders descending on our liberties," he said...
...down and, at the command "Pit your cocks," let their birds go. In a split second the cocks were five feet in the air. beak to beak. They lit and leaped again, dancing up & down in a swirl of feathers, the lightning death strokes of their steel gaffs* too quick for the human...
...Then, in quick succession two more particles were found, the neutron and the positron. Moreover, two particles whose existence has never been experimentally demonstrated cropped up in the lucubrations of theorists: the negative proton and the neutrino. Some of these little entities were charged with positive electricity, some with negative; some were electrically neutral or inert. Some were "heavy" or massive in relation to others-the ratio being about that of a ton to a pound. The physicists wound up. for the time being, with a nicely balanced table of discovered and hypothetical basic particles of matter, as follows...
...board remain the same as before, but the high board is used for all meets if the opposing team's divers have three-meter facilities at their home pool. First new dive is the "flying somersault forward, running," which is simply a conventional swan dive with a quick flip on the end of it. The "somersault backward" is just what it says it is except that the diver's body is kept perfectly stiff throughout the dive...