Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support the treaty because it was the work of the former die-hard Foreign Minister, Lord Curzon. The Labor Government submitted the Treaty as a matter of routine in maintaining continuity of foreign policy. The Liberals, led by Sir Edward Grigg, onetime private secretary of Lloyd George, whose rapid anti-Turk policy led to the ruin of British imperial ambitions in the Levant, denounced the Treaty. Sir Edward made the usual plea for Christian minorities. His argument that the Treaty was repugnant to the British Dominions was sunk without a trace when Ramsay MacDonald informed the House that...
...plan, as announced yesterday afternoon calls among other things for a gold bank of emission capitalized at 400,000,000 marks, administered by non-Germans and located in Berlin. "This should cause a rapid stabilization of the mark, perhaps in a few months time," Professor Carver explained. "The 'partial' moratorium for four years for which the plan provides, will probably yield increasing sums as prosperity continues to augment in Germany...
...rowing on crews under University coaches. J. A. Crooks '25, winner of the Carroll Cup last year, and University singles entry in the Schulyhill Regatta last year, will be in all probability the most promising candidate for his event this year. Boles Penrose '25 is another sculler who made rapid progress last year, and who it is expected will provide considerable opposition in the Carroll Cup event...
...share. Engineers regard the electrical industry still in its infancy. In the next decade, the building of "superpower" plants is confidently predicted, requiring vast amounts of electrical equipment. Furthermore, electrification of our huge railway system has already begun, and in a period of lower construction costs will probably make rapid progress...
These are the more ambitious features, which I have mentioned in what is necessarily a rapid review. There are many other pleasant and witty titbits." "A Sad Case" of Mr. K. O. Rockcracker, who was dismissed from the chair of Biblical Geology in Jehovah University, is a delightful little ironic sketch. "The Week" and "Paternalism" and the "Theory of Democracy" are so like serious New Republic editorials that it robs them of the zest and humor which make the rest of the number so attractive. And yet in their way they are the best parodies...