Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner...
...continental subsidiaries, Mr. Ford had intended to keep 60% of the stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise from its offering quotation, Berliners felt confident that a log-mark share would soon be selling at 200 or 250 marks. Then, unexpectedly, came the announcement that instead of selling the new issue by popular subscription. Mr. Ford was allowing it all to go to I. G. Farbenindustrie, Germany...
Even granted that the allies of the last war retain their unanimity against their old opponent. Germany's rapid come-back will soon make her much less amenable to compulsion. At present in urgent need of foreign capital to finance her industry, Germany must tread carefully to avoid offending her possible sources of credit, especially the United States, but once her prosperity is restored to its pre-war condition it may prove no easy task to enforce the provisions of any treaty made at this time. Laudable as is the achievement of the delegates in bringing a settlement...
Followed a rapid drive through the streets to Chapultepec Castle. General Calles, still in his war clothes-a big felt hat and tan suede "windbreaker"-looked tired but happy. At Chapultepec Castle he remained in secret conference with the President for some time, then motored to his own home...
...great increase in the size of the University has not been allowed to bring with it the standardization of production which has so often accompanied rapid development in the United States. The three hundred year old liberal tradition of which Harvard is so justly proud, has never been more carefully fostered than during President Lowell's administration. Undergraduate papers have been indiscreet, members of the faculty have outraged bands of zealous alumni, but President Lowell has defended them to the utmost no matter how out of sympathy he may have been with the opinions expressed. His own vigorously independent nature...