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...guard the character of the Square, an Association of Louisburg Residents who own the Square has struggled with a slow infiltration of moderninity from the quicker-moving surrounding streets. The first house was built in the Square in 1834, and a scant ten years later, the Association held its first annual meeting to "enlarge and adorn the said Square for the material andvantage and enjoyment of said Parties." For that first meeting there were seven Proprietors, the number swelling since then to twenty...
...coffee, he was back in business as Shah. A reporter (see PRESS) rushed to his table with the news: "Mossadegh has been overthrown, Your Majesty!" The Shah's jaw dropped; his trembling fingers reached for a cigarette. "Can it be true?" he asked uncertainly. The Queen was quicker on the uptake. "How exciting," said Soraya, placing a calming hand on her husband's arm. "It shows how the people stand," said the Shah at last. "I have to admit that I haven't had a very important part in the revolution." Aides scurried off to check airline...
...never failed to raise it whenever the Government needed more money (see chart). Economy-minded Senators, well aware that in the same 18 years the ceiling has been lowered only once (at World War II's end), thought that Humphrey's dilemma would make for quicker, bigger cuts in spending. But they also knew, as did Secretary Humphrey, that the ceiling, as a symbol, meant little, that the important thing was the long-range determination of the Administration to reduce the debt itself...
Birds' ears must also be quicker than human ears. Some of the songs of warblers, for example, are full of musical phrases set so close together that they cannot be heard separately. Even apparently simple songs contain quick musical details that slip past human ears. On studying the visual records, the scientists found that many birds are musical gymnasts, playing on their vocal organs as if they were string quartets. The blue jay, for instance, can sing what amounts to a major chord, holding a low note and a high note simultaneously; then after a hundredth of a second...
...plugged the idea, eventually got an order for the T-6 Texan (to the British, the Harvard; to the U.S. Navy, the SNJ). Early in 1940, when the British asked North American to build Curtiss P-40s Kindelberger answered that he could design and produce a better airplane quicker. In 127 days, he turned out the P-51, the first of the famed Mustangs. The U.S. was cool towards it, would place no orders. Since the services were looking for dive bombers, Kindelberger pulled another quick switch: "We told them the P-51 was a dive bomber, not a fighter...