Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Weeding men out in the Law School according to enrollment figures made public this morning is a rapid process. During the last six years Law School classes have lost an average of thirty six percent of their membership during the first year. That the selective means employed have been discriminating as well as swift is witnessed by the fact that second year mortality has averaged less than ten percent...
...years from 1885 to 1892, there were three bull markets in rapid succession. . . . That period resembles the 8-year span from 1921 up through this present year...
...been firmly established in the mind of the general reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution of the soul to higher and higher...
...Elysee Palace a small golden clock tinkled ten. Jovial, florid Gaston Doumergue was settling contentedly to the digestion of his late presidential dinner. From the clock a low, rapid tik-tik-tik. From the President of France a contented, sleepy sigh. Felicity! Then a door yawned and in strode busy, kinetic M. Raymond Poincaré, the man who saved and stabilized the franc, the grizzled "Lion of Lorraine...
Each man will fire the regular Government Qualification course once in an afternoon. This includes ten shots prone, five sitting, five kneeling, ten onhand, ten rapid fire prone within one minute, and ten rapid fire sitting...