Word: faster
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...that he loved her for her money. Colman is the prodigal younger son of a noble family. He comes home, attracts to himself a girl who was supposed to marry a Russian grand duke, and after difficulties weds her. The whole thing would be much better if it were faster and shorter but it is good entertainment as it stands. Best shot: the crowd going back to London after the Derby...
...idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop of his OX-Waco. went aloft. Few minutes later he landed, told skeptics that his plane had flown 10 m.p.h. faster than normally; that his engine had to turn only 1,260 r.p.m. instead of 1,320 to maintain altitude. On the advice of friendly airmen Inventor Perry planned to reduce the weight (30 Ib.) of his anti-drag fan, ask the Army Air Corps to conduct experiments with...
Last year marked the height of the investment trust movement: almost 500 were operating, a gain of over 100% in a year. The capital invested was tremendous. Since then most investment trust shares have declined faster than their book-value, now sell considerably below book-value. Rumors are current that more than a dozen investment trusts will dissolve. Last week the first such step was taken when Winslow-Lanier International Corp., affiliate of Winslow Lanier & Co., brokers, wrote to stockholders: "Conditions have changed materially since the formation of your corporation. . . . The general security market is such that sales at present...
...East Liverpool, Ohio, the City Council announced that any Pennsylvania R. R. engineman driving a train faster than 15 m.p.h. through the town would be arrested. Citizens had complained of 100-car trains speeding through the town at 50 to 60 m.p.h. "with unnecessary use of whistles . . . belching of smoke...
...Girls of 12 and boys of 14½ grow suddenly. The growth accompanies development of secondary sex characters. Girls and boys grow at the same rate until the eleventh year. Then girls grow faster than boys. At 15 boys begin to grow faster and soon overtake the girls.-Dr. Charles Benedict Davenport, Cold Spring Harbor...