Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trees in the Yard leaf-covered; caps and gowns, Albert very few; crew, track, baseball, tennis: spring, so slow in coming, so swift to leave, is already starting away, and summer, bringing Commencement, is no longer distant. This is the time for Seniors to take thought; to measure well the little space still theirs before the tassels are tossed to the other side of the caps, and Harvard has opened the gate for another five hundred to enter the fellowship of educated...
Berlin: The Symphony of a Big City. Here is a film without plot, without subtitles. A pool of limpid water is transformed into a mechanistic ripple like the swift succession of a hundred thousand railroad ties. A train shoots out of the country and into BERLIN in hard, square letters. It is 5 a. m. A sheet of newspaper flutters in the gutter of an empty street. A cat creeps across the sidewalk. On another street a man tacks up a sign. Four revelers waddle home, one of them dragging a balloon. Shutters go up. A factory gate rolls open...
Through choppy Mediterranean seas dashed the British battleships Warspite and Valiant, last week, steaming full speed ahead from the Empire naval base at Malta toward the Egyptian ports of Alexandria and Port Said. Beside the ponderous battleships, paced three swift cruisers, keen Empire dogs of war. Smoke belched. Spume flew. Meanwhile a good old fashioned ultimatum was being cabled by the potent Government of His Britannic Majesty to the puny Egyptian Cabinet of puppet King Fuad...
Upon these three points alert folk fixed their attention, deeming them trustworthy guideposts for a swift survey of Afghanistan...
...Swift to send aid were the British, French and Italian governments, all of which despatched war vessels with supplies for the 10,000 Corinthians who are now homeless, shelterless. Swifter still came the succor of the American Near East Relief, which maintains agents and nurses permanently in Greece. Meanwhile rich Athenians contributed generously and rapidly to a relief fund established by Old Paul Koun-douriotis, the revered admiral who is President of Greece because he alone is trusted as a man of honor-much as Germans trust Old Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg...