Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Another Sit-Down in the rubber industry last week, protesting layoffs in three Goodyear Tire & Rubber plants in Akron, ended abruptly when Ohio's quick-triggered Governor Davey threatened to mobilize his militia...
...long-awaited report on the U. S. merchant marine in Washington last week, Joseph Patrick Kennedy declared "This is the toughest job I ever handled in my life, without any reservations whatever." Mr. Kennedy has had tough jobs before, including organization of the Securities Exchange Commission, but even a quick glance at the official summary, briefed down to 17 pages, was enough to convince reporters that Mr. Kennedy spoke with feeling and sincerity. The report itself was a monumental document of 40,000 words. No desiccated aggregation of charts and tabulation, it was a bluntly dispassionate analysis of a national...
With Frank and Hessberg will be Charley Ewart and Dave Colwell. Ewart has played the wing back and safety positions for three years. He does all the short and quick kicking. Colwell in the fullback spot blocks and backs up the line to perfection, and above all kicks. For the first seven games he has averaged over forty yeards from the line of scrimmage...
This situation is certainly not ideal There are students who want tickets and cannot get them. Yet the scalpers have them, and to spare because they have ready capital, quick turn-over, and fabulous profits. The sooner this barnacle horde is strongly discouraged from its activities around Harvard, the more persons will witness the game who are entitled to and really deserve to see it. To all it must be plain: the Injuns on the Square this week are not from Dartmouth, and they are not on the square...
...friendly but overcurious natives with a blood bath, burned their village. Gonzalo with three others had the bad luck to be ashore when the natives returned to attack the ship, which fled for good. Only one of the four to escape, he lived in a cave until his quick wit and civilized gadgets awed the natives into accepting him as a reborn god. From then on his Eden-like life was complicated by nothing more serious than the easily outwitted jealousy of a native chief and by the natives' insistence that he take a beautiful 14-year-old girl...