Word: quickly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Finally he collapsed completely from the effects of a large and mysterious wound and was removed for a quick vulcanizing job. By the time he got back on duty, the day before the convention opened, he was probably history's most famous captive balloon...
Pausing in New York on his way to the Governors' Conference at New Castle, N.H., California's big, ruddy Governor Earl Warren gave the Eastern seaboard a quick look at himself...
...critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
...until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says, of that case of typhoid fever. He came down with it 14 years ago, just when he was beginning to go places as a young fighter. "I could always punch," he is quick to say. But the fever left him weak. Undertrained and undernourished after living on relief, he made a try at a comeback, finally quit because he could make more money ($85 a week) as a wartime shipyard worker. It took a lot of talking by glib Felix Bocchiccio, a small-time...
Brain surgery is a tempting way to tackle insanity. When it works, the results are quick and dramatic. Recently surgeons have been concentrating on the front part of the brain, isolating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain (prefrontal lobotomy), or cutting part of it out (topectomy). Trying a new approach, Vienna-born Neurologist Ernest A. Spiegel and Brain Surgeon Henry T. Wycis, both of Philadelphia's Temple University, decided to work on the thalamus, at the base of the brain...