Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious, but forgiving, reference to the President's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill was found in a poem of welcome printed in the Rapid City Journal: We want you to know that we understand What you did you thought...
Significance. When Signor Mussolini became Premier, five years ago, he found building at a standstill, due to the restrictions imposed by previous regimes upon landlords. The Fascist regime immediately removed these restrictions, and building has progressed rapidly in consequence. Now Premier Mussolini's new restrictions, supplementing others of a less drastic character (TIME, May 2), tend to pinch the very landlords who responded to his earlier appeals for rapid building. Did Il Duce, then, trick as well as pinch Italian landlords last week? Those who thought that he did not, declared that, by raising and stabilizing the gold value...
...Professor Charles Eliot Norton, the early apostle and pioneer in the field of Fine Arts in the University, under whose guidance the old Fogg Art Museum Building, the gift of Mrs. William Hayes Fogg of New York as a memorial to her husband, was erected, an era of rapid advancement has culminated in the construction of the new Fogg Museum on the southwest corner of Quincy Street. Directly the new Fogg Museum is a result of the $2,000,000 raised in 1924 to build a new Museum and to provide for it an endowment...
Aviation will show its use for rapid transportation next Sunday when the Reverend R. B. Ogilby '02, president of Trinity College Hartford, will preach a sermon at Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and will then fly to Hartford where he will attend the Trinity Baccalaureate services at the Church Cathedral at 7.45 o'clock. President Ogilby plans to attend his class's twenty-fifth reunion which will be held here on June 18 and 19. He is scheduled to preach the class anniversary sermon Sunday, which will start at 5 o'clock, but he also wants...
...sheep and deer are reputed to stroll. Almost at its door is a stream stocked with rainbow trout -a fish far more sportive than Adirondack pike. As to temperature, Senator Norbeck assured the President that he would "sleep under blankets." The business headquarters of the President will be at Rapid City, some 32 miles away. Here newspapermen will be located (not altogether to their liking as Rapid City is less cool than Custer Park and scenically less impressive) and here the President will hold his famed White House-now Summer White House-conferences...