Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...
...claim of the book is a great deal more than its claim as expert muck-raking. It is a rattling good story, yielding precedence to no other war novel in its swift vividness of narrative and its sureness of character analysis. The action occupies less than three days in the collective life of a french regiment of the line and in the individual lives, presented in a counterpoint pattern, of a number of the members of the regiment, from privates to the division commander. The division commander lusts for a star of a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour...
...series of swift developments lent credence to the belief the abductors intended to run the gauntlet of 30 Department of Justice agents and scores of state and city police to claim $200,000 ransom...
Exhibitors last week ranged from big companies like Cannon Mills (towels), Owens-Illinois (glassware) and New Haven Clock to little fellows like Protection Products, Toy Tinkers, O-Pan-Top Manufacturing and Thunderbird Aircraft. Buyers were Armour, Swift, Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Procter & Gamble, Wrigley, General Foods, etc., etc. Biggest dispenser of premiums, with an annual appropriation of some $2,000,000. is supposed to be Quaker Oats Co. For four Quaker Oats box tops or one top and a dime, the company has lately distributed no less than 350,000 model airplanes made by Scrambled Eggs, Inc. A newcomer...
With the peak load of epidemics likely to rise to five times the normal capacity of the building, it would seem that the duty of Harvard to the student body ended when it provided medical offices and an infirmary as a clearing house. Physicians capable of swift, expert analysis at Holyoke House and ward facilities for non-major aliments such as colds, laryngitis, and the like would fulfill the college's responsibility. Contagious diseases, major operations--such as appendicitis--and infectious skin cases should be referred by the medical advisers to the proper Boston hospital...