Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swift rivers tumble through the Canadian forests on their way to the mighty St. Lawrence. Between them, covering vast stretches of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, lies a great area of choice timber land. Its potential wealth defies estimate. Year after year, an army of men with axes and saws invades it, levies tribute for the busy mills dotting the rivers. But when they have finished, the woods rise stately and tall as before, seemingly an endless source of profit to their owners...
Editor Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post) prized rare glassware as he left the Majestic. Particularly proud was he of a drinking glass engraved with the words, "To Reverend Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral." Below, an engraved likeness of the Dean. Below, "In a Bumper...
Like the present Archbishop of York and Canterbury, Bishop Temple owes his swift rise, in part, to his intimacy with British royalty, but chiefly to his great ability as a leader of social work (particularly labor movements) and as a theologian. Archbishop Lang was Honorable Chaplain to Queen Victoria and close friend of the queen's consort Albert. Archbishop Davidson was first subalmoner to queen, then her domestic chaplain, then her Clerk of the Closet, a post which he continued to hold under Edward VII. His father-in-law was the late Archbishop Tait of Canterbury, to whom...
...four races: satyrs who mate with human beings, ruka-birds of uncanny intelligence, high-minded followers of the Priest of Gir, and the low-born descendants of a pirate crew. Satyr hunts, cannibalistic orgies, hair-raising escapes are in order. But Author Wright will rather be remembered for the swift ingenuity of his unique Deluge...
...They don't fool me. I know what they are. They're ox shoes. I've nailed many of them myself." ¶ To represent the U. S. as "observers" at the International Telegraph Conference next month in Brussels, the President appointed Charles Henry Shedd of Chicago (Swift & Company), Vice President John Goldhammer of the Commercial Cable Co., Manhattan) and U. S. Minister to Sweden Leland Harrison. ¶The President went to Cannon Falls, Minn., and delivered a dedicatory speech at a monument to the late Col. William Colvill, leader of the charge at Gettysburg in which...