Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...compared himself to the chief operator of a telephone switchboard who must accept responsibility for all the operators' "wrong numbers." He then went back to 1929, rehearsed as a confession the gist of his editorials publicly printed then. This seemed greatly to bore the judges. Russian quick-wits at once saw that Bukharin's "confession" of what he called last week the secret program of the conspirators was only a rehash of his public program of 1929, rejected then by Stalin, but amicably. "Our program," confessed the Heir of Lenin, "was greater freedom for the kulaks; greater freedom...
Grown each year on the Gold Coast of Western Africa are enough beans for half the world's supply of cocoa-270,000 tons. The cocoa farms are run by native tribesmen, black as a tinker's pot and quick to catch on about the law of supply and demand. In 1930 it occurred to them to do something about prices. Cocoa was so low on world markets that working on the farm didn't seem worth their while. In a few months much West African cocoa land was jungle again, and the price of cocoa went...
Friends of Steadman in the Law School were quick to defend his allegedly unethical actions in connection with the Year Book's publication. They claimed that the book was Steadman's brain child, that he had done most of the work to make it possible, and that the men on the Year Book staff whose work went unrequited were first and second year men who would have their chance to reap profits next year...
...will go to the Paradise Restaurant, where none other than Hope Chandler, immortalized on the cover of Life magazine a couple of months ago, will welcome you. If you've got a dime you might even be able to work in a quick Big Apple...
Samuel Isaac Krieger arrived in the U. S. from Germany some ten years ago, self-billed as a mathematical wizard and armed with a letter purporting to be a yip of praise from no less a personage than Albert Einstein. He quickly convinced reporters that he was indeed a marvel at quick mental calculation. He would say, "Think of a number from one to a bil lion," multiply the number given by a smaller number and have the answer in a few seconds. He would ask a newshawk for the date of his birth and then, after a moment...