Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scenic Effect. In Philadelphia, the Tilles Restaurant removed their suggestion box after two days when a quick checkup showed that 96% of the male customers wanted nothing added except prettier waitresses...
...Quick to pick up new ideas, Miss Brucher already sees in America's League of Women Voters a political weapon that might be used in Germany. In legislative halls, she has plugged for equal rights for the sexes and pushed through a bill giving equality in rights and pay to women office holders...
...With a quick squiggle of his pen, President Truman last week signed a law calculated to please both U.S. tourists and the foreign merchants who load them down with perfumes, silks, tweeds, genuine shrunken heads, and other souvenirs. From now on, Americans who go abroad on trips of twelve days or longer can bring in $500 in goods duty free (the old limit was $400). The exemption on shorter trips goes up from...
Some of the quick changes in such a "mixed culture" are due to external influences, e.g., changes of temperature or a new food supply. But often the disappearance of a certain microorganism is the result of intramural chemical warfare. It has been knocked out by some other organism, secreting a deadly compound...
...meantime, Valpey, Jordan, and Sebo confer outside, condensing their observations so that Valpey can give the players a quick summary before the intermission ends...