Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melanin is also the coloring matter of black cancer, one of the swiftest and most deadly forms of this disease. Since black cancers are malignant tumors and raised pigmented moles are benign tumors, pathologists call both Melanomas. What all cancer specialists know and what few laymen realize is that black moles sometimes turn suddenly into black cancers which are rarely recognized in time to save the victim's life...
...Foreign Office, the big bay window in which British Idealism is kept on view. On the Hoare side, where upper lips are kept stiff, there was silent, discreet, professional conviction that Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa is anything but a fool, and that Empire progress has often been swiftest when the British Lion's right paw quite honestly did not know what the left paw was doing. In the City a most unusual rumor was current that the head of one of Britain's "Big Five" banks, normally as remote as the moon from wildest overseas speculation...
...would take part on 160 vessels, in 450 planes. Potent newcomers to the Fleet would be the battleship Idaho, just modernized for $14,000,000; the Ranger, first U. S. aircraft carrier built as such from the keel up; five more heavy "treaty" cruisers; destroyers Dewey and Farragut, swiftest blue-water craft ever to join the Navy and first of a long line to replace the obsolescent Wartime destroyers. It was a Fleet, the Navy could not refrain from boasting, which was not only the most powerful ever to fly the Stars-&-Stripes, but in fighting strength second in world...
...stage show this week is downright good fun--an Argentine orchestra which can really make ones bones tickle with its rhythmic offerings is aided by a brace of the swiftest, nimblest dancers yet contributed by South America and by Jimmy Save, a pantomimist with a definite knack...
...that is the annual National Automobile Show. And with just as much eager pride as Kipling's she-wolves, the motormakers awaited the judgment of the buying public. If their models were accepted, they would lope happily in the annual spring running, which everyone expected would be the swiftest in three years. If their models were rejected, they would find the hunting lean...