Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flying off of a sprinkler cap on the top floor of University Hall, just under the roof, yesterday at about 2 o'clock caused the rapid appearance of three fire engines in the Yard. The only damage caused was from the water of the sprinkler...
Henry Hentz & Co. reported that this transaction was but typical of other German orders similarly placed, executed and confirmed by telephone in recent weeks. Observers marveled as much at the German enterprise as at the rapid communication. During last fortnight's furor on the New York Stock Exchange, a busy floor man was asked by his office for a quotation on General Electric. "What the-!" he roared. "I can't be bothered for quotations at a time like this!" "But Berlin wants to know. They're holding the wire." Abashed, the floorman dove into the nearest drift...
...Graham A.M. '17, associate professor of Economics at Princeton University, will make a study of the industrial consequences of rapid depreciation of the German mark in the post-war periods...
...amazing Hoover, when it comes to arriving at an analytical conclusion from an array of given facts, with an uncanny intuition in his rapid calculations and a capacity for getting other men to work for him which amounts to genius...
Married. Britton Ihrie Budd, 56, president of the Chicago Rapid Transit Co. ("L") lines; to Miss Marie Sheehan, 31, his onetime private secretary; in Chicago...