Word: swift
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows there is always an examination or some other cruel testing period impending which will inscribe an icy circle around his moon or draw a thick cloud over his sunset. Life for him does not strike with fury or with the suddenness of lightning. There is no swift piercing of the heart by savage arrow. Rather it is a slow process, cumulative, ponderous, relentless...
...planned drive and induced him to pour his reserves of men and munitions into the battlefront chosen by his opponents. Apparently it ended the danger of a surprise Rightist offensive at any other point for months to come. Psychologically it was just as important to Leftist morale. By a swift, well-executed triple-column movement Leftist arms had captured the strongest point yet in the Rightist line, a town elaborately fortified by its garrison for over a year...
...ruled 80 million people with unparalleled benevolence. According to Chiang Kaishek, they degenerated into marauding bandits who were completely wiped out in a series of anti-Red campaigns. But in both right & left reports, Soviet China seemed less a geographical and political reality than a wandering country like Swift's floating Laputa. At one time this nomad-land was located in Hunan Province in the interior, then in Kiangsi in southeast China. When Chiang Kai-shek's army took Juichin, its capital, in 1934, Soviet China disappeared, only to pop up a year later in the northwest...
...animation department are the strangest sights in the Disney plant. Animators leer and grimace into mirrors adjusted over their drawing boards, cocking one eye questioningly, darkly knitting brows, leaping up and down, squawking in experimental frenzy, and then calmly jotting down the effects with a few swift lines. There used to be a "zoo" at the Disney studios, and animators would study the antics of the animals in preparing their scenes. But for some years it has been recognized that the best cartoon effects are not to be got from animals acting like animals, but from animals acting like people...
...fool the engine, you can't fool the propeller," he remarked. "The problem now is to get a propeller which can turn fast enough. At 75,000 feet, the diameter of the propeller must be four and a half times that of a regular propeller. As it turns at swift speeds, the resistance increases 10 to 15 times...