Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic differences in speed are heightened by RCA's adopting its record to a new, rapid three-second changer. The adaptation requires a one and a half inch spindle hole, making it impossible for both the new RCA and Columbia records to be played on the same turntable. RCA has given up the idea of one symphony on one record, reduced the size of the record to seven inches, and come up with the startling result that its new record holds exactly the same amount of music as an old 12 incher. This leaves the entire advantage of the record...
This reviewer always felt that Bob Hope was a better buffoon than rapid fire gagster. Apparently Director McLeod thought the same thing because he has Hope superbly overplaying his part. He does the commonplace with a flourish and the spectacular by mistake. He is at his best when he pulls the wrong tooth and when he swaggers around town under the impression he is a dead shot...
...should the Soviet Union be used as a base? Stalin is even plainer. In one of his basic doctrinal writings, which has been republished in millions of copies, in many languages, right up to the present, he says: ". . . The development of world revolution will be the more rapid and thorough, the more effective the aid rendered by the first Socialist country [Russia] to the workers . . . of all other countries. In what should this aid be expressed? . . . The 'victorious proletariat' of the one country [here he quotes Lenin] . . . after organizing its own Socialist production, should stand up . . . against...
...crisis simmered down, Figueres was more solid than ever in the presidential chair. Somoza had his Legion foes at least temporarily disarmed. The O.A.S. could preen itself on a rapid job of calming intervention. Only Calderon Guardia had to face the fact of failure...
...Once identified by the editors as "Transit Rapid Brooklyn," but actually at present Richard Strout of the Christian Science Monitor...