Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swift & Co., meat packers, had successfully contended that the Commission was without authority to require them to give up the property of two competitors in Alabama and Georgia, which they had acquired by stock purchases. The Supreme Court decision was not unanimous; Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone dissented. The Thatcher Manufacturing Co. of Philadelphia won its suit involved in the same decision, though the Western Meat Co. of California lost...
...newspapers long since assumed the robes of justice. For years the protagonists in sensational trials have been obliged to undergo scrutiny by a row, and lately a galleryful, of gimlet-eyed reporters, swift to pounce upon every crumb of speech or gesture; brusque, oily or slyly intrusive with their cameras at the courthouse door...
...experimental tanks were occasionally killed. Subsequent experiment had shown that stagnant water could be freed from microorganisms; that small fish died in convulsions after "hearing" the quartz waves; that the blood count of a swimming mouse was reduced one half after 20 minutes' exposure. Possible significance: swift purification of water...
Trudging off down Harvard Street side by side with the reporter, Jack was a blue-coated symbol of the declaration of Herodotus that "neither heat nor cold nor sun nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these carriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds," which is emblazoned in the stonework of the New York Post Office. "This is fine work for keeping a man in shape," declared Jack. "I haven't missed a day yet," he added with Hibernian earnestness, "and I don't ever intend to miss...
...refrigerating effect of gaseous hydrocarbons is based upon the characteristically swift evaporation of their solutions. The safety of methyl chloride results from the fact that it does not decompose (i. e. evaporate) when breathed into the blood...