Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...causes of war in the world!" Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain promised in the House of Commons this week, as he asked approval for armed forces expenditure this year of $1,758,750,000 (see p. 18). In his house at No. 10 Downing Street, meanwhile, he had given swift impetus last week to negotiations for the Four-Power Pact which Britain, Germany, France and Italy will try to make (TIME, March 7), possibly admitting Poland to make it a Fiver...
...much depends." Over 100 have graduated from this course since 1913, among them his daughter, Elizabeth Brödel, who draws for the Women's Clinic of New York Hospital. Few alumni lack work, for, as Max Brödel tells all his students: "Medical progress is swift and constant, and many a subject considered a closed chapter has been opened by some discovery, thus necessitating newly illustrated books...
...half-white, half-Negro cast, and a half-white, half-Negro audience united in applauding it. The vivid set was the work of Perry Watkins, the only professional Negro stage designer in the U. S. Playwright Du Bois (Pagan Lady) has plundered- and partly falsified-history for a swift, swaggering, shoot-to-kill melodrama about the Haitian Negro uprising of 1802 under Henri Christophe...
...White Star Ltd., transferred it to a small pleasure steamer operating between Southampton and the Isle of Wight while the big new vessel was abuilding. Like other ships of subsidized British lines, the Mauretania's specifications are Admiralty-approved so that she can serve during hostilities as a swift auxiliary war vessel...
...guarded by his road runner pet. A rattlesnake approaches. Without hesitation the bird attacks, head feathers fanned and wings tensely spread. Like a matador it lures the snake into striking, easily swings out of reach. Like a matador it waits and feints till the enemy tires, then kills with swift skill...