Word: quickly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patiently, Emmelin & Feldberg squeezed hundreds of nettle needles to find out what was in them. They found two separate poisons, each with a special function. Acetylcholine causes the sudden burning (as if the nettle said: "Let me alone-and quick"). The other, histamine, starts the persistent itching ("Just as a reminder not to touch me again...
...considerably surprised. But realizing that he was not referring to me, I continued with my business,, After a good deal more of counting the Qaid-e-Azam said: 'Swindle.' Then again, 'Swindle -regular swindle.' 'Fraud . .. swindle . . . cheat,' came in quick succession. Then other words of a less statesmanly nature followed...
Writing music (unless you include Tin Pan Alley hits) is no way to get rich quick. So it was news that a tall, gangling musician named Leroy Robertson had got $25,000 for a long-haired orchestra piece. Probably no piece of classical music had ever been so handsomely paid for.* The money Robertson got for his Trilogy would have supported Mozart or Schubert for life...
...there was small hope of any quick boost in production, the obvious thing to do was curb the amount of spending money. Ttie way to do this, said Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner F. Eccles, was to use a few old methods (keep taxes high, restrict housing and installment credit) and one new one. He wanted Congress to give FRB the power to boost maximum reserve requirements of commercial banks (the amount of deposits not available for loans) from the present 26% to 51%. This was the "mildest way," Eccles insisted, of curbing credit...
...illustrator, Robert Seymour, had shot himself after finishing only half his sketches for the Pickwick Papers. A few days later, with some sample sketches tucked hopefully under his arm, a stout, bumbling, bemonocled young man called on Mr. Dickens to ask for the vacant job. The novelist took a quick look at the sketches and shook his head. "Had it not been for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence," declared William Makepeace Thackeray many years later, "I should have tried to be not a writer, but a painter or designer of pictures...