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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skiddy Von Stade Jr. put the Crimson ahead with a quick goal and hen Bennett Forbes, the game's high scorer with six points, increased the lead to two. With a minute and a half to go, Bill West tallied for Army, but another score by Forbes a minute later sowed up the game for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo Team Defeats Army to Enter Final of Collegiates | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...violence, but after a rancher in the Tonto Basin was hanged for killing two sheepherders, they gave it up. They tried cunning, stampeded wild horses into herds of sheep to discourage sheep-grazing on that part of the range. But the sheep kept coming. Coolidge says the legend of quick-shooting cowboys is pure myth: because they believed the law would hold them guilty if there was any violence, they went unarmed, ate dirt, bowed and scraped before arrogant sheepherders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cattle and Sheep | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Last week, with the "extremists" howling that the long-sought capture of Suchow would be a pointless victory unless the army was allowed to press on to Hankow, China's makeshift capital, Premier Konoye was persuaded to their side. Promising a "quick victory," he reshuffled his Cabinet, called to three key posts two of the nation's most influential military men and the top-rank Japanese financier. The Premier urged upon the new Cabinet a "renewed determination to attain Japan's fixed objective (complete conquest) in China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Quicker Cabinet | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...message that his daughter was worse. He flew back. Alighting from his plane at Oklahoma City he sprained an ankle. He limped to a phone, learned that his daughter was rallying, his wife slipping. So Mr. Whisenhunt flew back to Kansas City. There Mr. Whisenhunt himself developed, in quick succession, a toothache, ptomaine poisoning, blood-poisoning. At week's end wife and daughter were out of bed, Mr. Whisenhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Whisenhunt's Woes | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...search of quick return best method is for each student to leave in his blue-book an addressed postcard, which the instructor in the course can fill our and send to him as soon as the grade is determined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRADE SEEKERS AVOID UNIVERSITY'S OFFICES! | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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