Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great water systems begin pouring into the metropolis a colossal stream from a far-away mountain. Canyon. Across the State from San Francisco, in what is now Yosemite National Park, early travelers found a unique canyon, gouged from solid granite by eons of glacial grinding and the swift rush of the Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant. More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir...
Last week the following newsworthy corporations made the following news: Wages of Meat. The Big Four of the meat-packing industry are Armour, Swift, Wilson and Cudahy-foundations of fabulous Chicago fortunes all. They provide work for some 150,000 people. In the eyes of the Department of Justice, a good many U. S. citizens and all farmers, the leading packers are always suspect. Yet they handle hundreds of millions of pounds of a highly perishable commodity with model efficiency, no waste and a profit, if they are lucky, of a penny or two per dollar of sales...
Stealthily, after an arduous ascent, he stood confident before the offending door ready to bring the swift justice of the law to the unsuspecting voice within Flinging open the door he stood mightily on the threshold and gazed bewildered upon the scene that lay unfolded... There before him stood a stocky and amazed youth interrupted in the midst of rehearsing his part for a female role in the Kirkland House play. Chagrined and defeated the guardian of the fair name of Harvard sought the protective cover of the night...
...whole, our institutions of higher learning have kept pace with swift-moving progress. Here and there appear isolated charges to the contrary, as for example, the recent attack on the Harvard engineering school. In the continuous extension of higher education -- liberal and technical -- to greater numbers of American youth lies one promising route to this country's salvation. A college education is not longer, as in the last decade, a privilege -- modern youth has found it an essential factor toward success. --The Dartmouth...
...anthracite coal industry at a time when the Depression was called the Slump. In a story of only three days, John O'Hara succeeds in covering as much ground about Gibbsville as Sinclair Lewis did in describing Gopher Prairie (Main Street) in three years. He writes with swift realism, wisely avoids sentimentality...