Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fortune Hunter. Funnyman Syd Chaplin is never nearly so funny as his famed brother. What with his wide grin and his rapid trotting motion, he seldom cuts a solemn figure on the screen. Herein, first trying to marry a rich beautiful girl for money he is aided by the grace, charm and beauty of Helene Costello (sister to the famed Dolores). Later, trying to marry a poor, blonde girl for love, he is obstructed by Clara Horton, a horrible ingenue...
Indubitably the friendship which grew up between the two men had much to do with the rapid rise of Robert Clarkson. In 1921 he was made a vice-president, in 1925 a director, vice-chairman of the executive committee, an assistant to the president. With these pebbles in his pocket, it surprised few astute financial observers to learn, last week, that he had picked up one more...
...computes the total number of Harvard men at 50,000-a liberal figure and assumes that all jobless and disgruntled sons of Harvard are registered at Wadsworth House, the proportion is very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...
...nature of this training is worthy of examination, for one finds there gathered the bogies that have haunted the freshman's courses. Particular attention was given to the problem of note-taking. The groups were drilled in rapid reading: a corresponding growth in the assimilative powers was verified by tests. Lectures were given on habits, attentiveness, mental hygiene, memorizing, and choosing a vocation. The results that the grade of this group in intelligence examinations has been raised, and that the group is seventy-five percent successful in college and is on the up grade are interpreted as twin justifications...
Inside the box were electro-magnetic fields, actuated (through radio vacuum tubes) by an electric current that alternated at stupendously rapid frequencies. The alternations, as is the case with radio broadcasting waves, were too rapid for human ears to hear. But Professor Theremin, as anyone can do with a heterodyne radio receiving set, put one series of his electro-magnet waves against another series and thereby deadened a sufficient number of the millions of waves speeding silently through the box each second to leave few enough oscillations for audibility. (The highest number of waves that the ordinary human...