Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...persuade his people to seek financial rehabilitation through virtually placing the national finances in the hands of a receiver: The League of Nations. As everyone knows League fiscal control of Austria was terminated only this year (TIME, July 12) after the country had made one of the most sensationally rapid fiscal recoveries in history. Perhaps never before did a statesman lead his people in the unprecedented course of placing their national purse strings in foreign hands...
...Riding. In New York City, the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. (the I.R.T.) carried 1,130,647 passengers in its elevated and subway trains during the year ending June 30, President Frank Hedley announced last week. This represented 40,940,422 passengers more than during the previous twelve months. Elevated traffic, however, fell off 1.85%. The gross revenue...
...from the Sea, that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that is all the preparation...
...seas, especially, will be monopolized by airplanes. Even now a plane can travel four times as fast as the fastest boat, and this fact will always remain true. At present, it does not seem likely that the railroads will be supplanted; airplanes will merely supplement them by affording rapid transit for luxuries and perishable produce...
...assistant cashier of the American Exchange National though he was to succeed his father, Dumont Clarke, as president in 1910. President-elect Ward went straight from Yale to a bottom-level job with the Irving Trust, his rise to the presidency in 18 years (1901-19) being accounted exceptionally rapid...