Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skewered by two sets of tubes, its flat back mounted by three great overhead structures. The tubes all duck under the East River, bore deep into Brooklyn. One is run by Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corp. The other, a two-pronged affair stretching to The Bronx, is controlled by Interborough Rapid Transit Co. which also operates the elevated lines. New York City owns the tunnels and tracks, rents them under long-term leases to the operating companies...
Minor premise: "Rapid presentation, under the noses and eyes of guests, of a great variety of foods, some of which will be eaten later, while some will not, thus tion." exciting curiosity, surprise and imagination...
...Velvet. Newton Diehl Baker, discussing technological Unemployment in Manhattan last fortnight, declared: "The advantages and gains which come from machinery have no right to be all velvet to industry unless they are velvet to society. Industry has no right to take till the gains that come from this rapid substitution of machine process for human hands without bearing a substantial part of the consequent dislocation of the human element which it causes...
...younger professional men. The older professionals rate well among oldsters. Nervousness troubles 8% of professionals, 4.5% of farmers. Farmers are freest from defects of tonsils, nose and throat, and from chronic skin diseases. Heart disease occurs more among businessmen than among the others. The pulses most often appear rapid or irregular. More businessmen than farmers use patent medicines. But artisans doctor themselves most...
...Becky Thatcher, being tortured by his conscience because he and Huck Finn and Joe Harper are in on the secret that Injun Joe and not old Muff Potter killed the doctor; playing pirate on a raft; coming to his own funeral. John Cromwell's direction is rapid and expert. The only weak spot is Huck Finn (Junior Durkin) who has been edged almost out of the story because a separate picture about him is going to be made soon. Best technical shot: speech used as a sound-accompaniment of action in the schoolroom scene, where the teacher keeps...