Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is no great apprehension throughout business. Money is still easy, and only in scanty money markets can a swift depletion in commodity prices be readily brought about. Buyers are therefore continuing to buy from hand to mouth, and general business continues fairly prosperous but devoid of inflation or undue stimulus...
...menace to the grand old institution were it not for the atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass tack. E. Austin Benner...
...United States in all lines of commercial aeronautics. Records for speed and altitute fall before American army pilots, but still the fact remains that there is not a single commercial air line in this country. In Europe during the last six years progress in this direction has been swift and certain. Air lines with regular schedules now connect all the principal cities, while several competing routes join the more important capitals. On one line alone, that between London and Paris, fifty thuosand passengers have been carried since the armistice. With modern well-equipped planes the danger of accident is reduced...
...Babbitt. Now, slightly relieved but no whit satisfied, he hammers out a harsh heroism and lays it, hissing hot, to the flabby flank of Medicine. While he is thus occupied, his fancy is caught by a realist's dream of fair woman - wry little Leora. The satire is swift, sure, great in its age, and Leora, being of life, will outlive...
...unusually swift woman...