Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laws of the Student Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
...Swift developments in this key country of southeast Europe, where conditions have been turbulent for a month, were expected to have an important, though as yet uncertain, bearing on the struggle for dominance of Europe between the totalitarian and democratic blocs...
...Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain...
...Swift Lathers, whose Mears, Mich., Newz is the smallest (four pages, 5¼ by 7¼ inches) and oddest newspaper in the United States. A poet and mystic who spends his summers in a tent and many of his nights pacing the dunes of Lake Michi gan, Editor Lathers makes a precarious living for his wife and three children (Thelma, Billo and Forest Glenn Lathers) by publishing such fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray...
...lineups: ELIOT 0 DUDLEY 2 Ossaus, l.w. l.w., Marvel Bird, c. c., Noone Edgar, r.w. r.w., Koufman Jaretzki, r.d. r.d., Kane Soule, l.d. l.d., Ulin Lillie, g. g., Allen LOWELL 3 WINTHROP 0 Finn, l.w. l.w., Thorndike Blotner, c. c., Rousmaniere Swift, r.w. r.w., Hornblower Deering, r.d. r.d., Wood, H. Dowd, l.d. l.d., Culley Gordon, g. g., Regan DUNSTER 5 KIRKLAND 0 Downes, l.w. l.w. Rower Doughty, c. c., Dempsey Pierpent, r.w. r.w., Williams Gerrity, l.d. l.d., Cogswells Scholfield, r.d. r.d., Law Kayser, g. g., Evers LEVERETT 2 ADAMS 2 Stohn, l.w. l.w. Carr Daughaday, W., c. c., Gorham Bremer...