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Word: swifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which means: "Give me a kiss, please, Miss. I like your nose''- and two-line essays on moral subjects (e.g., "Nothing fails like Success"). They spoke English fluently, but after the manner (somewhat corrupted) of their 18th Century creator, Jonathan Swift. They would say: "He fell Victim to Intoxication, and dismounted from his Nag to seek the Safety of the Terra Firma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lilliput Land | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Next step on the agenda will be discussion and decision on the Committee's own version of the constitution. Any disputed areas will be dropped from the group's deliberations and scheduled for swift all-student opinion drives, probably in the shape of House forums. In conclusion the Committee scheduled meeting for Monday and Wednesday of next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combined Group Begins Work on Council's Reform | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

...Jayvees plan to field a swift back field for their first engagement. Its members include quarterback Bucky Harrison, one of the best place-kickers on the entire squad, tailback Dave Farrell, tailback tom Wilson, and fullback Alex Grant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee Eleven to Meet Tufts Team In Opener Today | 10/4/1946 | See Source »

...POUND SINGLES -- 3:17.8: Day, Dowd, Swift, Adams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith Sets Pace In First Postwar Sculling Regatta | 8/30/1946 | See Source »

...political enemies started to use this against Willie. When the charge did go off, it uncovered some strange relationships (and some unnecessary melodrama). Jack's mother and his friends, Adam and Anne Stanton, and a lot of others are drawn into the vortex of events that is the swift and punishing, tragic and surprising last half of this book. It is climaxed by the inevitable assassination of Willie Stark in a corridor of the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not without Blood | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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