Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident but a fine piece of respectable pressagentry accounts for the prestige of the Princeton Invitation Track Meet, most notable event of its sort to be founded since the War. After swift William Robert ("Bonny") Bonthron (Class of 1934) turned Princeton's eyes once more to track & field events, Graduate Manager Asa Smith Bushnell and freckled, good-natured Publicity Director Frederick Spring Osborne hit upon the idea of staging a post-season track meet in Palmer Stadium for the elite. So well was the idea promoted that no less than 40,000 spectators turned up in the concrete horseshoe...
...conservatives throughout the British Empire raise their hands in holy horror (TIME, April 15). For these were no ordinary course-of-business contracts: solely on the basis of Hydro's promise to buy, the private companies sold bonds to the public to finance enormous expansions up & down the swift rivers of Quebec. For Ontario to disavow these power contracts was only one step removed from deliberately defaulting on a direct Provincial loan...
Just before the Supreme Court killed off the Blue Eagle, the stockmarket pierced its long-established ceiling, shooting into new high ground for Recovery. With typical perversity, it shot downward even faster after the NRA decision. Some swift price-cutting developed but that merely served as a stiff shot in the arm for retail trade. Business as a whole kept a stable keel...
Throughout the novel there is a powerful surge of adventure. From the opening, when the Irish Sandy Brissaut and his English wife, Getra, flee from the police by sea, to the concluding chapters concerning Andrew's and his companions' return from the bleak Russian steppes, a swift current of happenings bears the characters on swiftly, and at times, inexorably...
...Justice Swift charged the jury...