Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was more truth than poetry in Professor Opdycke's announcement in the opening lecture of Fine Arts 1d that half the course would concern architecture, half painting, and a quarter sculpture. Every lecture in the course is necessarily presented at a speed rivaling Floyd Gibbons and Ted Husing at their best. The consequence is that only a few salient suggestions can be scribbled down by the student concerning even the most significant works of art, and the chances of a man's choosing the most important features for notation are at best slim...
Varney's Fare Sirs: In the issue of TIME, dated Jan. 25, under the heading of "Skylounges," you state that United Air Lines non-stop service between New York and Chicago is the world's first extra-fare plane service. You overlooked the fact that the Varney Speed Lines, which formerly operated Lockheed planes between San Francisco and Los Angeles, had an extra-fare service...
True it is that defunct Varney Speed Lines operated the first aerial extra-fare passenger service. Regular fare between Los Angeles and San Francisco was $18.95. Varney charged $25, refunded 10? a minute for every minute's delay over 1 hr. 58 min. flying time...
...Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have in some cases assassinated Soviet managers who tried to Stakhanovize their plants (TIME...
...conclusion, may I point out the particular danger involved in one argument advanced. It is said that an emergency exists and, therefore, speed is necessary. There are a few great emergencies such as civil or foreign war which confront a nation from time to time and justify emergency measures, either by legislative or administrative action. But every instance in which an emergency is claimed to exist must be examined with the greatest care. Unless this is done, the country may proceed under the banner of emergency legislation down a road which leads to the abolition of democratic government...