Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the refueling went on, the President had three hours of fishless fishing in a whale boat. Then the swift voyage southward was resumed and the newshawks riding in the Indianapolis' wake racked their brains and filled the ether with radioed chit-chat about the President's initiation by Neptune's Court when crossing the Equator...
...study begins at the turn of the century, surveys the political scene in which Defoe, Swift, Addison, and Steele made their contributions to what Defoe called the "Heats, Feuds, and Animosities" of their day, but becomes most absorbing in its account of the activities of the journalists who fought back and forth during Walpole's last fifteen years in office. No period can rival that one for the violence of its satire, defamation, and downright libel. There were statutes forbidding the publication of criticism of the minister's policy, but the speed laws of today could scarcely be less effective...
...Ever since Dubiel's ineligibility, Harvard has had to face a definite end problem. In recent games, Bob Green and Don Daughters have been turning in admirable performances, and have been ably supported by Gibby Winter and Win Jameson. This improvement, under the tutelage of Wes Fesler, has been swift and continuous, but none-the-less, the majority of ground gained on Harvard this fall has been around the flanks. Few plays have gathered much momentum through the center trio of Gaffney, Jones and Kessler. And anywhere from left to right tackle 200 pounds of Al Kevorkian is likely...
...show that madness may breed genius, the neurologists, headed by Dr. Abraham Myerson of Boston, cited the following admired men, more or less mad children of more or less mad parents: Hans Christian Andersen, Balzac, Beethoven, Bonaparte, Byron, Frederick the Great, Michelangelo, Newton, Poe, Swedenborg, Swift, Tolstoy...
Most U. S. fiction about the automobile has been of the character of Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout, with only a few novelists making a serious attempt to investigate the social influence of this piece of machinery in U. S. life. Exceptions have been Robert Coates's lyric descriptions of driving in Yesterday's Burdens, Sherwood Anderson's awed observations in Kit Brandon. Last week a 29-year-old novelist made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments...