Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Able Editor Burton left McCall's in 1927 after five brilliantly successful years, joined Cosmopolitan in 1931. McCall Co.'s other big magazine and Cosmopolitan's rival, Redbook, has been edited since 1927 by quick-thinking Edwin Balmer, who finds time on the side to write many a popular novel, many of them in collaboration with a prolific Redbook contributor, Princeton's Philip Wylie...
...Calif, railroad station in the summer of 1889. By that time, the U. S. Attorney General had heard of Terry's threats, provided Justice Field with a bodyguard. He was U. S. Deputy Marshal David Neagle, remembered as "a man of small stature but strong, left-handed and quick with a gun." He was standing by when Sarah Terry and her husband entered the station restaurant, spied Justice Field at a table. Mrs. Terry turned on her heel, left the room. The 66-year-old onetime Chief Justice of California's Supreme Court walked quietly up behind...
This just about lined up western Europe tacitly against Spain's Reds, caused them this week to stake everything on desperate sorties from Madrid, frantic efforts to inflict on the White besiegers quick losses heavy enough to make Europe change its mind...
Startled at such a rapidly moving glacier, youthful Henry Bradford Washburn, veteran of many Alaskan expeditions and an authority on Alaskan glaciers, reached for a pencil and pad at his desk in the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration. After making quick calculations, he announced...
...confusion which prevailed in Washington last week after the first shock of the President's proposal had passed. California's Hiram Johnson, Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler made up their minds against the plan. But after the first quick division for & against, the 30-odd remaining Senators who held the balance of power were lying low, waiting to see how the wind blew. Letters from constituents and memorials from State Legislatures were mostly pro-Court, but there were enough pro-President to give Congressmen pause. Asked why he had suddenly...