Word: swift
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unheated halls was small opportunity for the niceties. It knew little of the works and life of Franklin, but worshipped the epigram and death of Nathan Hale. Place on the football team, in college office, and secret societies went to the low of brow, heavy of hand, and swift of limb...
...imaginary war, was declared and five days later the U. S. Pacific Fleet was a hypothetical wreck. Such was the swift and perilous action of the annual fleet manoeuvres. This was how it came about...
...fact that Loren Murchison, and men scarcely inferior, were running against him. C. I. Paulsen '27, in the hurdle event, starting from scratch, could not overcome his opponents' handicaps. Fletcher, however, in the first heat, with a one foot handicap, took second place, bowing to Christiansson, the swift Swede from the Newark A. C. The latter's time was six seconds, equalling the world record. Fletcher won his semi-final heat, and in the finals he came in ahead of Christiansson, who could not repeat his earlier performance...
...Dibble writes in part as a protest against the large mass of American biography-against its "sprawling incoherence," "parochial banalities," "maddening prolixity," "heavy slabs of adulation." His own portraits are characterized by refreshing brevity, a swift, strenuous manner, a sincere endeavor to get at the man behind the legend...
...Hardy players presented at Dorchester, England, Thomas Hardy's new play, The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall. Said The Times (London) : "The action is swift and strong without interruption. The poetry is clear-cut and precise...