Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement Dean Holmes drew attention to the fortune of Cornell in securing "a man who also mingles with ripened judgment a quick sympathy for individuals, particularly for young men and women, and an intuitive understanding." His complete statement follows...
...Orient frightened men are quick to attempt to bribe, and the Japanese Army & Navy has its own peculiar morality. Last week Japanese Sugar Tycoon Hatsutaro Akashi suddenly announced that a group of wealthy and patriotic Japanese love their Army so much that they are going to give it $50,000,000 in installments during the next three years. This was only a small sop, but it tended to decrease rather than increase the likelihood that Japan's swashbucklers would force Premier Koki Hirota to throw down the gage of war in an effort to call the tremendous bluff...
...stand proud as Punch, not that he is a great conductor, or that anyone has ever called him one, but because he, Gaetano Merola, could rightfully claim credit for making San Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed an opera association with 2,500 founder-members who were...
...team hops from the huddle into the formation shown here, the line balanced, the backs in the characteristic T formation, and the ends slightly split. The T formation of the backs, from which quick opening plays and plays on which the quarterback handles the ball may be run, is, like the balanced line, characteristic of the Notre Dame system. While the signal for the play to be run has been given in the huddle, the quarterback calls another set to give the cadence of the hop-shift to his mates...
...quick to tell me President Conant was receiving an honorary degree from Oxford this afternoon and wouldn't I like to join him in seeing the ceremony? Aside from the fact I got to know the Conants through their Sunday teas and this is an institution I would highly recommend--I was interested in going, for all such ceremonies here at Oxford offer an insight into the background and traditions of the University...