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Word: swiftly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cardinal Hayes was swift to approve, swift to perceive what a stroke of churchmanship the plan was. For on Passion Sunday morning in Rome, Pope Pius XI was, with highest ceremonial, to inaugurate the extraordinary Holy Year which he announced last Christmas and explained last month as a means for "spiritual raising up of hearts and minds . . . universal concert of good works and prayers. . . . We propose to pray every day and we invite everyone to do so with us." Coupling President Roosevelt's New Deal with the Pope's Holy Year would be churchmanship indeed. And no church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 1900th Passion | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

...William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vikings | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Howard Thurston. Magician. Ham (Swift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Very Poor | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Swift," Professor Greenough, Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/28/1933 | See Source »

LESTER L. SWIFT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1933 | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

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