Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With here and there a rivulet swift gushing...
...there and here swift taxis swifter rushing...
...Palmolive 895,489 + 37,047 Victor Talking Ma chine Co 864,200 -320,110 Armstrong Cork Co.... 801,700 +378,000 Vacuum Oil 800,100 + 48,100 Dodge Bros 784,078 +142,478 Chevrolet 779,032 +226,967 Pepsodent 750,656 +189,355 Quaker Oats 744,517 +211,937 Swift & Co 710,650 + 53,300 General Electric 695,385 +133,245 Hudson Motor 683,370 +296,100 Pond's Extract 674,530 +229,430 Heinz, H. J. Co 673,304 +145,334 American Tobacco .... 662,845 +364,154 Cudahy Packing 645,660 + 53,660 Ford Motor...
After visiting the filthy towns of the plateau, the party wended its way across swift-flowing rivers and by picturesque lakes, feudal castles on mountain peaks, and hermits' caves until they established a base camp at the foot of Everest...
...last week Professor Breasted was indiscreet. He announced Mr. Rockefeller's offer prematurely, that is, before Egypt's acceptance was certain. The figure announced was the exceedingly plump one of ten millions. So swift and sweeping was public enthusiasm that the opposition could but dwindle. King Fuad waited to compose his reply, but a Rockefeller architect, fresh from Cairo, declared that all was well, that plans were already being draughted for two one-story buildings to stand on the island of Gezira, opposite Cairo's richest residential quarter. These are to cost about five and a half millions, the balance...