Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they climbed in their carriages, rolled 30 miles south to a hilltop above Manassas, Va. to watch the Union troops under McDowell smash through the Confederate lines in the War's first major engagement, march on to Richmond and a swift end of Secession...
Roguish Girl, Ah, she's a pearl With feet as swift and true- As the legs of any ewe; I'll tell you boys she's here to win, And from now on it looks as if You will be drinking the better grade...
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee was bragging: "The entire country is applauding the swift, energetic and efficient manner in which the Roosevelt Administration is moving to the relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force!" In five days WPA placed 16,500 farmers on relief projects, made ready to handle another 58,500. The Resettlement Administration declared a one-year moratorium on some 30,000 rural rehabilitation loans, prepared to pour out $18,000,000 for crop loans and feed. With Secretary of Agriculture Wallace...
...Miami Beach home he built a mechanized observatory which is an amateur astronomer's dream. He calls speedboat racing a "mechanic's game." To the Chippewa Indians on a Canadian island opposite his summer home in Algonac, Mich., Gar Wood is Chief Kezhee-Neebe (Swift Water). Lanky, gaunt Chief Swift Water attends tribal festivities regularly, though in his initiation, which included finger pricking and the usual peace pipe, the feathers were omitted because the Gar Wood pate is never covered...
Adolf Hitler, judging accurately that the League of Nations would go down before Benito Mussolini last week, administered with Nazi shrewdness a swift kick of his own to the prostrate Geneva body...