Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pending reform of the Student Council Constitution was aided in part by the needlings of the Liberal Union. It was also quick to rally the student body to the support of Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, during his stormy October disagreement with Representative John Rankin of the House Committee on Un-American Activities...
Americans object if a man is considered superior merely because of his wealth, and yet we use this measurement of nations. History taught in our lower schools leads to faulty thinking, by whitewashing our part in wars, and calling our imperialism by less odious names. . . . Finally, we are too quick to think ourselves a Santa Claus when we give a trifle out of our plenty...
...others filed out, and Secretary Marshall stayed behind for a 45-minute chat with the President. Then he walked over to the State Department, where Jimmy Byrnes was waiting. Over a lunch of oyster soup, lamb, and mince pie at Blair House, he listened to his predecessor's quick outline of what he was getting into. Back at the State Department, Marshall picked up the top-secret statements of U.S. policy on each country of the world. Then, for three quarters of an hour, he submitted patiently to the traditional ordeal by camera. At 4 p.m., he drove...
Karsh's good friend, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, persuaded reluctant Winston Churchill to pose for the "local photographer" in the Speaker's Library at the House of Commons. Churchill grumpily lit a cigar and growled that he would give "two minutes for one shot." With a quick movement Karsh plucked the cigar out of the Prime Minister's mouth. As Churchill glared balefully at this impudence, Karsh clicked his shutter. The picture was published (in LIFE), and Karsh's reputation was made...
Although they scored one-sided victories over M.I.T. and Tufts in their first two meets, Varsity wrestling coach Chief Boston is quick to point out that his wrestlers are inexperienced and have not yet met any top-flight opposition. "When we start meeting the colleges with consistently good past records, we'll be able to tell how good we are," Chief asserted yesterday...