Word: rapides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Business School seems to be following the course of wisdom in limiting the number of the entering class for next year. Of course the present size of the facilities across the river directly necessitated the decision but there are other considerations which might well impose restriction on too rapid growth. Sound growth takes time as well as careful direction and the business of assembling a faculty of capable men cannot be carried out in a year or two. There must be time for seasoning and the consolidation of present gains before a program of continuous expansion may be looked...
Every day in Manhattan hundreds of Interborough Rapid Transit subways charge through the warm odorous gloom underneath the streets. Uptown they soar to daylight on elevated tracks, downtown they dip beneath the east river to Brooklyn. I. R. T. advertisements say that 1,000,000 people ride them daily. Each ride costs a nickel. I. R. T. potentates have long claimed that the nickel fare is not enough to meet expenses...
...rapid glance showed General de la Vega that the 24 Ibs. of dynamite would explode in just three minutes. Pouncing, he seized the ticking bomb, swept past his expostulating orderly, dumped the dynamite into the nearest horse trough...
...orderly saluted. General de la Vega turned on his heel and left for a rapid tour of inspection of the defences of Juarez. Nearly an hour later he returned to his office, prepared to plunge at once into the mass of papers accumulated on his desk. The large red bomb was still there, still ticking...
...very new thing they discovered: some normal "rapid" stomachs digest a meal in two and a half hours. Other normal "slow" stomachs require three and a half hours for the process. Those rates pertain only to the stomach. Digestion proceeds all the way down the ten yards of bowels...