Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Know-Nothing; that is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal, except Negroes...
There is no cause for you to be alarmed by the rapid rate of increase of the buffalo, for, although you are bound to care for and not to kill the specimen you get from the Park, you are not bound to preserve the life of any offspring to which your animal may give birth...
...thereby be reduced. Secondly, it deadens sound and would thus make dwellings more comfortable and even more healthy. Finally, it is cheaper than natural timber, and being lighter as well, would incur lower transportation charges, which are an important element in lumber costs. As Mr. Dahlberg sees it, the rapid depletion of U. S. forests is bound to make of synthetic lumber manufacturing one of the world's greatest future industries...
Bethlehem Steel may be said to be paying the price of over-rapid expan- sion. After absorbing the Midvale, Cambria and Lackawanna properties, it found that large sums were required to modernize and coordinate them. Meanwhile the steel business has been undergoing a very severe slump during the last few months. U. S. Steel came an even worse crop- per in 1903-4, just after its organization. Bethlehem Steel is just now experiencing a period of the same sort of difficulties, and the company's directors were no doubt wise in resolving to conserve cash at the expense of common...
...method. The approach to the enemy bacillus through the bloodstream is called intravenous therapy. Formerly, only five drugs could be so administered, but today the number has been extended to 140, and the treatment is applicable to almost as many diseases. Especially in cases of pneumonia and diphtheria, the rapid passage of the medicine through the body in intravenous therapy gives it an advantage over the much slower processes of the stomach. The method, however, is one for highly expert...