Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Localized Warfare. In six hours of super-swift Czechoslovak mobilization, Premier-General Syrovy rushed 1,200,000 reserves into uniform. "They streamed into public buildings and discarded Mufti," cabled United Press's Eleanor Packard. "They picked out Sam Browne belts and cartridges. They seemed to find preparations for war great...
Smooth as clockwork, with no argument, the House unanimously approved the proposals. Speaker Sleyster then ap pointed a committee of seven to confer with Federal authorities. After two swift days of unprecedented action the meeting adjourned, amid cries of "progressive," "almost revolutionary." Said Editor Morris Fishbein, tremendously delighted with the finesse and harmony of A. M. A. dele gates: "Many people will be surprised at the progressive action of the delegates. Of course I am not. I helped to work...
Last year Louis R. Chauvenet '41 broke all previous records in wining his subscription. The chief stumbling block in past races has been procuring the all-important signature of the adviser, but Chauvenet browbeat his mentor into swift, unargumentative submission...
...complete the 865-mile railway which more than tripled Iran's previously existing lines. Heading north from the Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass...
...after two decades of flying army Jennies, daredevilish barnstorming, and pushing swift racers to more than 200 flying records coast-to-coast and here-to-there in the U. S. and Europe, Frank Hawks had learned a thing or two about landings. He had cracked many a ship in those 20 years. One in 1921 had cost him $200, one last year, $100,000. Such mishaps he took with a grin. "If you can walk away from it," he used to say, "it's a good landing." Once or twice Frank Hawks was unable to walk away-one crash...