Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capable of the greatest excitement over either business or fun, tall (6 ft.), heavily handsome President Paley has run through watercolor painting, oil painting, motorboating, airplanes, photography in rapid succession. He rushes at business with the same enthusiasm, somewhat deceptively because the impetuosity breaks down into shrewd caution whenever necessary. When anything important is at stake he chooses his words with astute grace, but he prefers the free extravagance of mixed metaphors. A favorite phrase: "Not a red dime." Youngest and oldest chief executive in the network business, he has come a long way from cigars. He now smokes cigarets...
...Tucker's "study of real wages of workingmen" convinced him that the most rapid improvement in their purchasing power occurred from 1864 to 1873, 1880 to 1892, 1922 to 1929. He found that the first and third periods were also marked by the greatest concentration of wealth. This led him to postulate that concentration of wealth derived from legitimate business profits is a concomitant of general prosperity, while concentration from speculation (as in 1929) or war profits (as in 1863-65) is not. His inference: "Any measures that may be taken to diminish the concentration of wealth and income...
...biggest value to the Senate is as an acute critic, rapid analyst of legislation...
...lifted the tip of the umbrella form the sidewalk, mumbled a word and fell in with the other's rapid stride...
...first vitamin, discovered in 1914, was something of a mystery, and hence was given the algebraic name of A. Other vitamins followed in rapid succession: six Bs, one C, eight Ds, one E, three Hs, one K. There is even talk of a vitamin P, and scientists have been so busy tracking down the unknown properties of vitamins that they have had no time to agree on more significant, logical names. Certain it is that vitamin discovery and, more recently, the artificial production of vitamins have opened an entirely new field of therapy. Latest news from the vitamin field...