Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bulk. For a round he dodged the terrific right uppercuts and left hooks winged at him; he countered, ducked, and backed away, but at the start of the second Camera rushed out of his corner at a speed amazing for so big a man, landed a right, then rapid rights and lefts. Black Owens went down backward flat on his shoulders, and stayed there while the referee counted ten. This was in Newark, N. J. Jubilant, Carnera returned to the Park Plaza Hotel, Manhattan, broke two chairs in his arms as he capered about, pretending they were women...
...Lecture Hall, where annually the mysteries of medieval unity and modern multiplicity are expounded, some 700 policemen in plain clothes recently heard District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell explain methods of avoiding the pitfalls of cross-examination in court by clever "rapid-fire" criminal lawyers and counsel against bullying autoists. The officers of the law took no notes, and their numerous cigars created a haze which busy ventilators failed to dissipate, but their interest in the district attorney's talk was so keen that they were unanimous in voting for a continuation...
...photography itself is like an intelligence greater than the sum of the minds that worked to make it. Whatever is seen through the camera has the novelty, strength and directness that the same images might have as they flowed in the thought-stream, rapid and silent, of some vigorous, original mind. Best shot: the War in Filimonov's tortured memory symbolized as a vision of himself as a Russian soldier, meeting and recognizing himself at an intersection of searchlights as a German soldier; then his own image again, as captain of a battery, receiving and executing the order that blows...
...share of Lambert for two of Prophylactic. Although Lambert's $5,500,000 total assets are not double Pro-phy-lac-tic's $4,032,000, Lambert's high earnings make the merger desirable to Prophylactic shareholders. In the last few years Lambert has turned in this rapid progression: $1,288,000 in 1926; $2,998,000 in 1927; $4,447,000 in 1928; over $6,500,000 estimated...
Carefully Mr. Mellon sat down in the witness chair, at his elbow Assistant Secretary Lowman, behind him Prohibition Commissioner James Maurice Doran. Before the Committee was the enforcement transfer bill written by Dry Representative William Williamson of Rapid City, S. Dak. (Coolidge 1927 summer resort), homesteader, rural editor, lawyer, title abstractor. Major issue of the transfer is: where to put industrial alcohol control? The Williamson bill weasles this question, provides for joint control by the Treasury and Justice Departments...