Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consider them a part of the propaganda being disseminated by the Cafeteria Trust, which is seeking, and alas acquiring, a strangle hold upon the gullet of the American people. Even those of us who submit most tamely to the ignominy of self-service feel vaguely alarmed at the increasingly rapid disappearance of the waiter from our modern times. Obviously something must be done about it; and as we slop coffee over an ill-balanced tray we wonder what...
...Negotiations. The progress of the negotiations in Washington was rapid. M. Caillaux arrived at the railroad station. A fleet of automobiles and a cumbersome delegation was waiting. He took off his green felt hat and was photographed. He told reporteds: " I shall be delighted to see you always, as many times as you want to see me, but I shan't say anything worth while, I am afraid...
...Yale's historic quadrangle, Dean Jones further suggested, "as a bare possibility", the erection of a 20-story skyscraper, similar to the University of Pittsburgh's much-discussed "Cathedral of Learning" (TIME, Nov. 17). Placed in the middle of the old campus, this structure would have rapid elevator service, class rooms, living quarters, swimming pools, libraries, dining rooms...
...dinner, one Richard Hutchinson. Him Mr. Edison shook warmly by the hand, joined in reminiscent laughter. It was years ago, when Edison was a verdant cub on the telegraph desk of a Boston newspaper, that he was set by his overlord to receive a despatch from Hutchinson's rapid key in New York. Hutchinson was "the fastest man in the business," Edison's assignment a (supposedly) cruel one. Dots and dashes ripped in at a dizzy pace for several thousand words when the key paused and Hutchinson clicked, with mock solicitude: "Are you getting this?" Back clicked Cub Edison: "Send...
Ever since the disastrous period of 1920-21, merchants and manufacturers alike have endeavored to secure the highest possible profits with the smallest possible inventories. Such a policy, to be profitable, requires very rapid "turnover of stock", and just this phrase has become a fetish throughout U. S. business...