Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inside Europe, first published three years ago and since continuously revised to keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
Rumpel-Stilts-Kin (Decca). The Merry Macks-three boys, one pretty girl and a left-handed trap drummer - record the newest of the swift, adroit, hot vocalizations that they have been airing over the big networks for a year...
Although mourned by grateful thousands all over the world, "Doctor Charlie" was known as the co-organizer of America's most streamlined medical factory rather than as a practicing physician. To millions of Americans, the Mayo Clinic, with its staff of 160 top-flight physicians, its swift conveyor-belt system in which invalids, nameless but numbered, are shunted from consultants to specialists to surgeons, has long been known as the Supreme Court of condemned patients. To thousands of forward-looking physicians, the 50-year-old Clinic, which long ago initiated group practice and dispensed with family doctors, stands...
...There were some 60 illuminated books and manuscripts, opulent and glowing psalters, gospels, books of hours. There were a series of Rembrandt etchings, some prints showing the development of the mezzotint, many a print and drawing by the great masters. There were letters and manuscripts galore-Milton, Cromwell, Swift, Dickens, Kipling...
...King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the civil war in Spain, the German seizure of Austria, the Russian-Japanese clash in the Far East, the menacing gestures of Hitler against Czecho-Slovakia-until at Munich the sequence of bluffs, threats, swift moves, force and the threat of force culminated in the panicky weeks of Europe's worst war scare in 20 years...