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Word: quickly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-keyed, redhaired, green-eyed Cinemactress Greer Garson, pushing 40, told a judge that Actor Richard Ney, 28, had called her a "has-been." She got a quick divorce and left the courtroom sobbing as the flashbulbs popped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...strength of a quick look backward to previous tussles with this recurring crisis of the Forties, the Student Council might well undertake a two-fold program. The first and most crucial aspect would entail revitalizing its Relief Committee. Here the emphasis must fall upon providing a sense of personal student participation in aiding the shipment of food and other supplies to specific parties abroad. For the second phase of its program the Council should seriously consider a plan for stopping general food waste in the dining halls. While this is an impersonal method, the results will fit neatly into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waste Line | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Policy Planner. A quick, diffident man with a thick thatch of greying black hair and a scrubby mustache, Armstrong is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, a grandnephew of the Hamilton Fish who was President Grant's Secretary of State, and a second cousin of Isolationist Ham Fish. He was 29 and foreign correspondent for the New York Evening Post when the Council on Foreign Relations* started Foreign Affairs and made him its managing editor. Six years later Armstrong became editor. With the help of one editorial associate and a secretary, Armstrong puts out the magazine in the Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: High, Grey Brow | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Harlow termed the play of the team as a whole ragged "In spurts and stops." After several quick touchdown, the Crimson attack was effectively stalled until the last 16 minutes of the game, when Western Maryland tired badly, yielding 8 of 14 first downs and four more touchdowns. He also thought the team's covering on kick-offs was weak and would require a lot of work this week...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Harlow Claims Weak Spots In Spite of 52-Point Victory | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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