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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...science and warfare, Professor J. B. S. Haldane of University College, London, opens his new book A. R. P.* (Gollancz, London, 78 6d), which thousands of Britons were reading last week. They knew for certain that fleets of German bombers were already being prepared in the Reich for quick takeoffs (see p. 15). Digging through Professor Haldane's 296 pages to learn what Science thought would be their fate and what Science advised could be done about it, Britons found crumbs of comfort only in the belief of Professor Haldane that no new and unprecedented weapons such as "death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Last Trumpet | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...most of the kicking, and, if his quick kicks go as well as they have in practice, he should be able to throw the Harlowmen back on their heels more than once...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Crimson Is Given Edge In Season's Tough Opening Game With Brown Eleven Today | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

Irving Hall, 195-pound six-footer, and Captain Larry Atwell, 185-pound triple threat, will be the Bear's big claws offensively. Hall ran wild against the Brown scrubs a couple of days ago, while Atwell's chef d'oeuvre is his quick kicking...

Author: By Staff Correspondent, | Title: TOUCH BACKFIELD, TAME LINE SHOWN SO FAR BY BEARS | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

...also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Money for Minutes | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...market. Hitherto manganese, the element which gives, steel its pliability, has been apt to cluster instead of spreading evenly through the steel; now J. & L. is feeding manganese into the molten metal in carefully measured and shaped lots. The new process, says Metallurgist Graham, is like using bits of quick-dissolving granulated sugar in coffee rather than lump sugar. The analogy would be more accurate, he adds, if lump sugar caused rheumatism and granulated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Non-Rheumatic Steel | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

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