Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prominent New Yorkers connected with traffic statistics say the London contention is buncombe. According to Frank Hedley, President of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, the average speed of local New York subway trains on both east and west sides is 16 miles per hour. From 96th and Chambers Street on the west side and from 125th Street and City Hall or Brooklyn Bridge on the east side an average speed, including stops, of 16 miles is maintained...
...gone to Red Top with the worst of the season behind it, and with confidence in its coach undiminished by its two defeats to date. Odds on the final race are now overwhelmingly in favor of Yale, but steady improvement, combined with the chances for continued and more rapid development at New London, makes a Crimson victory on June 22 something not altogether beyond the realms of possibility...
...most satisfactory and most exceptional. If lessons can be learned from the Moscow Art Theatre in the matter of ensemble work in production, lessons can also be learned from the negro writers, musicians, dancers, and comedians in the matter of "pep" and chorus dancing. The standard of snappy, rapid-fire musical comedy production in this country is set by George M. Cohan. His theory is that if his productions go off with a sufficient amount of dash, have the necessary contagious "pep", the audience will not have time to think very deeply on the true merits of the piece...
...first time in United States aviation, a flying boat hull made entirely of duralumin. The use of this metal, which is as strong as ordinary commercial steel but only one-third as heavy, resulted in a saving in weight over wood, and will effectively prevent soaking of water and rapid deterioration which accompany wooden construction...
Going down the home stretch the first eight tried every means to get away, but the seconds, responding to Mumford's rapid stroke, refused to be shaken off and finished only a length in the rear. The time...