Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent years Lord Rothermere, who controls the London Daily Mail, Evening News and Sunday Dispatch, together with a string of prominent provincial papers, has stopped just short of yellow journalism. He was once reported ready to bet some $1,000,000 that his reporters could encircle the globe faster than U. S. newshawks; in 1934 he gave British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley a brief but dizzy journalistic whirl; possibly his worst fiasco was the Daily Mail campaign "Baldwin Must...
Basically, beagling is a spectator sport. Except that beagle-bugs run a little faster, puff and stumble a good deal more, there is little difference between chasing a hound that is chasing a rabbit and chasing a golfer who is chasing a golf ball. But beaglers, unlike golf fans, are mighty etiquetty. Their exclusive fraternity has honorary degrees, liveries and other traditions that date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth...
...when he was away his generals began plotting to junk the Constitution. Five years after military victory the new republics were chasing after dictators faster than Bolívar could run. When Colombia started a counterrevolution and his beloved General Sucre was assassinated Bolívar wrote: "All who have served the Revolution have ploughed...
When her publishers suggested that she write a children's book, Gertrude Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...
...Other steel bottlenecks: Continuous mills roll semi-finished steel into sheet and strip much faster than open hearth furnaces now operating feed them with ingots. Nor can the blast furnaces now in operation keep up with the open hearths. Steel making at Youngstown, Ohio dropped two points (to 80%) this week because of a shortage of iron. At Buffalo last week Bethlehem Steel blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories...