Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High Price of Slums. Unemployment in Spanish Harlem has risen with each packed plane's arrival, and New York's state and city authorities have begun to worry about the area's rising relief costs, crime, the swift rise in tuberculosis and venereal disease...
...fashionable Calle Florida. The paintings were Candido Portinari's first showing since his return from Paris, and obviously he had come home with a paletteful of ideas. Gone was the eerie wind which had blown through his desolate landscapes, flattening figures to splashes of color enclosed in swift, sketchy lines. Instead, there were harshly patterned compositions with heavily outlined figures, thickly painted limbs that looked like kneaded dough, nubble-knuckled hands and feet...
...speaking of the same Mr. Robinson who is now with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... At U.C.L.A., in 1939 and 1940, the swift Mr. R. did the following, which I sincerely doubt has ever been equaled in college ranks, even by Mr. Outside...
This week, against Pittsburgh's plummeting Pirates, 26-year-old Pitcher Spahn spun his tenth win, breezing through with six strikeouts. That put him one up on Cincinnati's smart Right-Hander Blackwell, two up on Cleveland's swift Feller, and halfway to every pitcher's goal-a 20-game victory total...
...grandfather Joe Medill the year Bertie was born) at Cantigny,* his 1,000-acre farm near Wheaton, Ill. Over a frugal breakfast of coffee and juice, he scans the Trib's fat, one-star final and Marshall Field's skinnier Sun, tearing out clippings. He scribbles swift notes on them and stuffs them into his pocket for delivery to his editors. For an hour he strolls Cantigny's gardens and rolling fields (now mostly idle). He has given up riding: "Can't get a groom, dammit," he complains. "There just aren't any good grooms...