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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Preceded by a modest automobile escort, it came at last down streets reverberating with banzais. At one place the crowd made a quick spontaneous rush from the curb, almost surrounding the imperial car. Nodding happily to them and waving his shapeless grey hat with the flourish of an old campaigner, Hirohito looked more like a successful and extroverted political leader than the scared sovereign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Broom | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Edward Estlin) Cummings is a poet who is generally at odds with the world, and a painter who is at peace with nature. In the catalogue for his exhibition at a Manhattan gallery last week, Cummings expressed both attitudes in quick succession. ". . . Come let us adjust," he wrote, "until the whole world's an infrahuman ultrafamily of supersub-morons delightedly drowning in telejuke-movieradiovision." And he followed that bitter advice with the happy reminder that "Art is a question of being alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As I Go Along | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

...Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smothered Incident | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

ACTH Brings Quick...

Author: By Fred B. Little, | Title: Thorn Announces 'Dramatic' New Treatment for Arthritis | 6/2/1949 | See Source »

...Quick's 20,000-copy test run went on sale on newsstands in eight cities from Philadelphia to Tacoma-but not in Manhattan, where Editor & Publisher Cowles had dreamed it up. With Look's staff "and of course Fleur" (Mrs. Cowles), he had knocked the first issue together in four months. If the first issues caught on, Quick would probably go on a national distribution basis next month, get its own staff. Without ads, Cowles figured the new magazine would need 300,000 readers to break even. The trick for Quick was to find that number of busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Busier & Busier | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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