Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Birkenhead's career has been at once brilliant, diverse, meteoric and successful. In his 52nd year, comparatively a young man as public servants go in Britain, he can point back to distinguished academic achievements, a rapid and dazzling ascent to the apex of the legal profession?the Woolsack, and a political career, which, if erratic and opportune, has at least been singularly free of the unspectacular. "F. E.," as Lord Birkenhead is known in Britain, can be said to have started his career at Oxford. There, in the year 1893, he was elected President of the Oxford Union Society...
...great potential, and very few messages were sent. Field was still active in seeking capital, and organized a new company which bought the Great Eastern, largest vessel of its day. On July 27, 1865, the new cable was finally completed, and from that time development has been rapid...
...sorts of extra parts. But, unless they work a miracle, they cannot go on inventing new devices of improvement forever, and they will saturate the market for parts. Automobile companies have an unfailing market for replacement parts. Phonograph records wear out, and have to be replaced at a fairly rapid and constant rate, and fashions in records change. But the radio machine is singularly constant. It does not wear out. Its parts are singularly constant, too. You have to replace bulbs, but a bulb will last for a year or more. Batteries wear out, but the radio companies have...
...from Tikhon's peer, Meletios Metataxis, Patriarch of Constantinople, and from him the quasi Patriarch of Moscow is now said to be seeking aid and comfort. But the Most Rev. Metataxis is himself in trouble, owing to the Turks, and to those Greeks who wish to see a rapid peace at Lausanne. Metataxis (TIME, May 12, June 11), is unalterably opposed to the Turks, yet resides in their capital city. It is as if the Dalai Lhama lived at Canterbury, while the British were seeking to check Tibetan influence in Northern India. On July 4 the Patriarch Metataxis...
...great air force England opposes only 35 squadrons, most of them scattered in Egypt, Palestine, Mesopotamia, India. English commercial air services are small in number, though highly efficient in operation. French political purposes are not too clearly defined, but there is no doubt that in the next war a rapid and overwhelming attack from the air may bring an immediate decision. English public opinion has been gradually aroused to the dangers of this situation, in which her splendid fleet might be powerless, and to disarm almost unanimous criticism Premier Baldwin last week announced an addition of 34 squadrons...