Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that is all the preparation. It is to be supposed, that...
...Chicago reproduces in moleskin the tactics of the late Prussian army; when one line falls he sends up another. To people in the stands at Philadelphia it seemed that every substitute linesman was bigger than the last. But where one had fallen the next fell; Penn, with a swift, irreverent back named Paster Fields, smashed through...
...Spinden '06, Curator of the Peabody Museum, recently related to a CRIMSON representative the strange narrative of the Mosquito Kings, a story worthy of the imagination of Dean Swift. The Mosquito Coast is a small jungle district of Guatemala in Central America inhabited by some 8000 Indians and famous for its abundance of insect life. Its history runs back to the dim ages of Maya supremacy in Yucatan to the days when the Tolters ruled Mexico with their thousands of plumed warriors...
Class B. singles with a long entry list has been progressing slowly. Most of the matches are now in the third round. Joshua Sands Jr. '29, H. W. Rubsamen '29, and Edward Swift '30 have advanced into the fourth round ahead of the rest of the field...
...travelling from one place to another was done in a boat chartered by the party at Juneau, the capitol of Alaska, Glacier Bay with its unchartered rocks and shoals presents many problems to navigation. In addition, the tides, as great as 19 feet in places, create swift currents at the entrance of the various bays and fiords...