Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole apparatus of Tsarol industry, he declared, is being utilized to the limit without sufficiently rapid replacement of worn out machinery, is being used up. The influx of half a million untrained workers into the factories has further slowed production, greatly lowered the pre-Revolution standard of production per man per day. On the contrary, the peasantry's production of foodstuffs per man has somewhat increased. Ergo, plentiful bushels of grain have sunk in value before scarce, manufactured products...
Palm Beach Girl (Bebe Daniels). Florida real estate isn't so popular just now. Its values were overworked. Likewise Florida movies about the wild and winsome rich have been done and overdone. This is one more about rapid motorboats with the comedy included when the heroine gets seasick. Marvelous scenery and photography helps. They always help. In travel films that's all one looks...
Examinations have an awkward tendency to interfere with the steady tenor of college existence. In place of placid efforts to keep up with the slow moving body of courses, there is a feverish spirit of review, rapid reenactment of the term's accumulated knowledge...
...German delegation submitted a significant memorandum on this point: "The suggested examination of methods likely to bring rapid assistance to a country attacked should not, in the opinion of the German delegation, be based on the present position of armaments, which is temporary. The examination should have as a starting point a state of disarmament resulting from the conference such that no county would be so powerful as to be in a position to assert its strength against that of the League of Nations." Disarmed Germany naturally favors the rapid disarmament of other powers to an "equality of weakness" with...
...introduction of these elements into American higher education has occupied nearly a century. The increase in the number and the power of colleges, the immense sums raised for their maintenance, the overwhelming tide of students, the rapid turn in Faculty personnel, the incessantly expanding campus, the extending of the idea of going, to college to all classes of the commonwealth these and other improvements have made education a rather perplexing thing. Standards have been built up with enormous difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over...