Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapid multiplication of the Antelope Island buffalo herd from a few head in 1885 to 300 this year, surprised conservationists. The explanation was found more in the good food supply than the lack of molestation. Food supply is a far greater factor in conserving game than are refinements upon the already adequate protective legislation.* Contrary to popular belief, the migratory game birds of the U. S. are not diminishing but increasing, according to the U. S. Biological Survey. This fact lately led Editor Clark Adams of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, himself a keen hunter, to pen an article...
...Franklin, N. C., one Harry Sorelle, driver of an ox team, fell out of his wagon, held on to the lines, was dragged down a dirt road. Dust sprayed from the rapid hoofs of the oxen, rose from his body in a cloud, filled his nose, mouth, eyes, throat. He dropped the lines, lay gasping in the road for a moment, then, after a terrible convulsion, stopped breathing. The coroner reported death by smothering...
...special wire to the CRIMSON office from the Stadium made the rush account of the game possible. The problem of rapid transit from the press was met by a taxi equipped with a special traffic mandate allowing it to travel the wrong route on a hole way street...
...Seery, counter-man extraordinary, bus-boy of the first water, is one of those who stand and wait in Arthur's Incorporated. He cannot understand the reason for the agitation and concern over the rapid eating habits of the student body...
Whatever alarm there may be over rapid-transit dining about Harvard Square, there is none behind the counters of the food marts. Scaling their wares over the counter, the food-dispensers are speeding the guests on the way, careless alike of stomachic disturbances and desire for casual talk, both of which seem to be present in the student body...