Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fairbank does not see a swift end of the Chinese civil war if the Communists continue their present use of the "cell system." This method, necessarily time consuming, involves infiltration of certain sections by Chinese Communists who work to prepare the population of these areas to receive Communist troops, rather than to help Nationalist troops fight them. "By this means of warfare," Fairbank noted, "it will take another year for the Communists to get to Canton...
Brooks now holds a $250 Swift Scholarship and is president of Phillips Brooks House. McGiffert is chairman of the Eliot House Committee...
Bell succeeds Harold H. Swift, who requested that a successor be chosen for the position at Chicago, which he has held since 1924. Swift will continue as a member of the board as he has done since his election...
...swift and sometimes brutal melodrama, The Dark Past makes a frank plea for sympathetic understanding, rather than harsh punishment, of young criminals. Smooth performances by Holden and Cobb put the point across without undue sentimentality...
...justice was swift-he could expel or cane offenders with the same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...