Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main detriment to education in the south," he said, "is, of course, the negro situation. But we are still going through a period of reconstruction, South Carolina was the most trampled on state in the South, and received a hard blow. Nevertheless, our small colleges are making rapid progress, and producing some powerful intellects...
...taken a firmer hold", said Lieutenant Thomas, "is that the planes which can be purchased by amateurs are not safe, and will not be allowed by the Army and Navy authorities. However, if Harvard can get a plane of the type of the Fokker machine, I look for rapid progress by the Club. The trouble in the past has not been that there have not been enough planes, but that there have not been enough capable pilots to fly them. This difficulty is being eliminated by the work of the Harvard-M. I. T. training course...
Lieutenant Thomas said that he did not agree with the statement that a day would come when aeroplanes were as numerous as Fords. "However," he declared, we are making rapid steps forward. Yet the best average is that made by the air mail, which is fast becoming a flourishing institution...
...much too briefly with his guitar and all but stops the show. The music otherwise is tuneful, if not epochal. The song "A Girl in Your Arms is Worth Two in Your Dreams" is good musically, although its philosophy is open to serious question. Mr. Buzzell offers a pleasing rapid-fire patter song called "Rue de la Paix", the words of which we planned to remember to tell our roommates, but which, unfortunately, we have already forgotten...
...move rapidly today, and it may be difficult for those whose minds are still dwelling on the practices and events of the past, who are still thinking in terms of former generations and who move in keeping with the standards of buried years, to keep up with the rapid sweep of progress in New York and throughout America...