Word: swift
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lives of the poets, the vanity of human wishes, and a very few other things; but we love to read about him-indeed, we can never read enough-and we see and remember him as we remember only two other men in the long line of English writers, Swift and Carlyle...
During the past week three new men have joined the squad. These are Sargent, Swift and Davis. The squad now numbers about eighteen...
...muscles and the heavy bones are at the bottom of the body and the lungs and air-cells at the top, so that the bird, ballasted as it is, naturally rights itself when in air. The feathers of the wing are divided into primary and secondary feathers. In all swift flying birds the primary or outer feathers of the wing are "feathered" or turned edgewise on the recover so as to offer less resistance...
...following men will be in the rowing room dressed to row tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock: Winch, Brannan, Bigelow, Lawton, Palmer, Scudder, Denison, Smith, Farley, Keily, Garrett, Sherburne, Hayes, Norton, Brice, Forbes, Averill, Huntington, Cunningham, Robbins, Swift, Cutting, C. P. Adams, W. Adams, Whitman, Homans, Legnard, Nourse, Curtis, Spencer...
Buell was sent east with 40,000 men, but was compelled to guard two hundred miles of railroad, and Bragg, who had succeeded Beauregard, anticipated Buell by a swift move, took Chattanooga and assumed the offensive...