Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief expenses? We did not. At present the Administration is spending in the name of relief at an annual rate of a billion and a half more than in 1934. And yet, less than two weeks ago in Pittsburgh the President told us that we have had a more rapid recovery than even he had anticipated. And the band played, Happy Days Are Here Again...
...cost of the World War (his estimate is $400,000,000,000) and a warning to his hypothetical audience of powerful individuals on the cost of another such conflict to them. Between these two points he has compressed into 243 pages an inclusive study of war propaganda, a rapid but convincing survey of innovations in warfare finance, an exposition of the fallacies underlying the idea that the defeated force can be made to pay the cost of War. While he discounts lurid stories of wholesale destruction, Professor Knight leans to the theory that the next war, like the last...
...last January and has followed them on road trips this summer, hurried arrangements for improving his grandstand as a result of the Pennant he had just won in his first season as a big-league owner. Delighted with the prospect of another "subway series," New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. promised to double the length of its trains to take care of the 100,000 extra passengers who will use them every afternoon of play...
...victory holds a far brighter future for governmental service. President Rosevelt has repeatedly come out in favor of extending the civil service requirements, even to highly paid positions. To lay down a smoke screen of cloudy accusations about Mr. Farley does not obscure the President's good faith. The rapid expansion of government functions, which took place when the recovery agencies were formed, made it impossible to bring the new positions under the examination and merit system. But the less spectacular branches, forestry bureau, consular and diplomatic corps, and the like, have taken notable strides. Finally, the new regulation...
Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics...