Word: quicker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...cost $3.050.000, is expected to pay for itself in 15 years with automobile tolls of $1.25. A series of five two-lane bridges connected by a viaduct and about five miles of highway, it traverses four islands, brings 200 others into view, will be cheaper by more than half, quicker by many times than the ride on the nearby Clayton (N. Y.)-Gananoque ferry...
...Scientific Monthly last week Dr. Abrams reported that businessmen and lawyers tend to wait longer than the average before taking another wife. Educators, public officials and medical men are not far from the average. Clergymen and engineers are quicker, a good proportion marrying again in less than two years. Dr. Abrams explains this by 1) the social advantage of a wife to Protestant ministers; 2) frequent moving of engineers to new locations. Scientists apparently remarry more quickly than any other group. For this Dr. Abrams had no explanation whatever...
Although the Japanese Government officially apologized and paid this bill with the greatest speed possible to officialdom, penitent Japanese civilians were even quicker, have been going around to able U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew with all sorts of small & large contributions, many brought by Japanese school children shepherded by their teachers. In Joe Crew's nondescript kitty there was $10,800 last week when the Ambassador was authorized by Good Neighbor Roosevelt to establish this as a trust fund in perpetuity, income to be spent entirely in Japan "for purposes testifying to good will between Japan...
Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...