Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, the plane landed on its skis in the valley itself, a great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy was here...
Additional "information" supplied by the stranger was that Gardiner was staying at the Hotel Dixle. A quick call by his father showed that no Sylvester Gardiner was registered...
After Dave Farrell opened the second period with a quick goal, the Varsity ran into a fast B.C. attack. This was coupled with tight and rugged play on the defense that netted tallies for the opposition before Dick Greeley could break the spell with a solo score...
...fighting. A child of Manchester's slums, she put herself through Manchester University, championed woman suffrage and union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor Party, which elected her to Parliament in 1924. There, shrill-voiced but quick-witted, she was in frequent clashes with such debating stalwarts as Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Lord Woolton (once her schoolteacher...
...victory over Brown was the second for the unbeaten Varsity swordsmen, who defeated Amherst in an earlier contest. The Yearling squad had stopped Exeter and bowed to a quick-thrusting Worcester aggregation in previous battles...