Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tariff revision in the form of increased rates for agriculture and industries in which "there had been a substantial slackening of activity and a consequent decrease in employment"; reorganization of the Tariff Commission with higher salaries, a faster system of fact-finding on changes recommended, a "sounder" system for valuation...
...points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With his record hung up, Gar Wood stepped out of his boat, forgot it, and set to work designing another boat to go even faster. His first racer was a panting dinghy that the experimental Gar teased up to eight miles an hour by squirting raw gasoline into the air bell of the motor with an oil can. His latest, before the careening flash of last week, was the beautifully designed Miss America VI that dove...
...next day (March 26) money opened not at 9%, but at 12%. It rose to 15%, exceeding the previous day's high. Another and a greater selling wave set in−especially in coppers. The amateurs fled even faster than the day before and hundreds who did not flee were sold out, adding to the casualties. And money still rose...
...morning, a delicate blue sea-horse drifted by, his head emerging perky from an island of seaweed. Joan tried desperately to scoop him up, ran to the taffrail and scooped again, but the supercilious creature escaped. Over the side plunged six-year-old Joan in its wake, swam faster and faster from the schooner, while her father bellowed orders, and the mate lowered the dinghy. The oarsmen finally caught her, but not before she had captured the anemone and thrust it in her overalls pocket. Back on board, she was more distressed by her dead sea-horse than...
...Spieler (Pathe) is a tense picture of carnival life faithful to its background. From the time a crooked spieler goes to work for a girl-proprietor who is trying to run an honest show, the action moves ahead faster and faster through beautifully dovetailed sequences to a climax in which the spieler, armed with a tent stake, fights his way out of a battle with a mob of "rubes." Fred Kohler, Alan Hale, graceful Renee Adoree and a competent minor cast replace with simple, effective acting the sentimentality common to this type of picture. Best shot: the quiet, sinister...