Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvinists remained in the Congregational churches of New England. In 1800, however, in historic old Plymouth, the Unitarians formed a congregation of their own. In 1819. William Ellery Channing set up five points of Unitarianism vs. the five major emphases of Calvinism, and the splitting up of congregations was rapid...
...First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, the clerk's report showed a gain of 79 societies, and 16 churches. There are now 2,061 branches of the " mother church." Christian Scientists publish no total membership, but it is known that their rate of gain is not as rapid as it was ten years...
During all this furore about speed nothing about efficiency is said. The subway and bus systems of Paris are probably the most efficient in the world. The trains of the Nord-Sud and the Métropolitan, with three double doors on the side of each car, permit rapid exits and entrances. On a certain day, during the busiest hour, the longest stop from the Place Denfert-Rochereau to the Madelaine was only seven seconds...
...Mussolini. Mr. Lee says Mussolini's rule is personal. When speaking with Americans he used an interpreter, but " so mobile is his face and so rapid its play of expression that the watching interviewer can get his meaning almost before the English words reach the ear." The Premier attended the recent session of the International Chamber of Commerce held in Rome. Cinema men prepared to take a picture of him. The great man frowned?the picture was not taken. Explaining his change from Socialism to Fascism, Mussolini said: "I looked at Russia and saw the logical outcome of what...
...struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...