Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sutro has conceived some excellent characters he has drawn them well, but he has not worked out a series of actions at all probable-in fact his play and veri-similitude have not even a nodding acquaintance. Every line of the play indicates rapid working over of very old material to which has been added to give a slight impression of up-to-dateness, a certain amount of modern "atmosphere". Two characters save the play from utter artistic oblivion; Lady Clarissa's aunt, who gives the audience a hearty laugh about once every half hour, and John Cordway's brother...
...whole the coaches are very well satisfied with the work of the University squad. The development the past week has been rapid and the three crews now row quite smoothly. All of the eights seem evenly matched at present. After the work of picking the strokes, which will be over about the middle of the week, the coaches will concentrate again on the problem of choosing the 16 men to be retained at the final...
...hydraulic stage should be carefully distinguished from the revolving stage which has been used in American theatres. This type enables a rapid shift of scenery, but the number of scenes can not be any greater than usual without making, the stage too small. It is impossible to get any effect except the usual level surface...
Although the University crews have been on the river only one week, their development has been so rapid that Dr. Howe and the coaches will decide tonight what men will be retained next week in the three eights that will then constitute the University squad. Especially encouraging has been the work of Crew A and Crew B which, although they are not graded, have a majority of the veterans...
...introduced, they began to make, as they still do, more money on passenger traffic than on freight, which is just the opposite of what it is in this country, and at least serves to show the popularity of this better means of transport. Another striking commercial example is the rapid evolution that has been brought about in the silk industry in the province of Kwangtung. By means of lectures and demonstrations and by special courses for silk producers given at the Canton Christian College under a stipend from the Silk Association of America, a greater volume of disease-free eggs...