Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes always more impossible for the tutor to discharge his teaching functions in odd moments stolen from research. Unless the future is to see more emphasis placed upon instruction than on publication, unless tutors, in particular, are to find effective teaching as good a guarantee of promotion as rapid book production, the value of Harvard's educational efforts is in danger of suffering serious decline...
Garrison, who has performed brilliantly at center on the University sextet this season, was first reported disabled for the season, but his rapid recovery has insured his return to the first lineup within a short time. He was on the ice for a short time Monday but was advised to wait until today to return for regular practice. The Dartmouth game on February 16 will probably see him in the opening lineup if he is not able to perform against the St. Nicholas Club sextet on the coming Saturday...
...France's static population on this, and the French Government has passed extremely strict laws against spreading birth control information, but France has no higher birth rate than England whose population increases 300,000 annually and where contraception is perfectly legal. In Holland the spread of contraception has been rapid in the last 45 years in spite of official opposition, because the midwives of that country have learned its methods. In other countries it is a medical, and therefore a slower matter...
...Dunster and DeWolf Streets. The much greater length than breadth of the section is a serious problem especially as regards the more-crowded western side of the proposed rectangular Yard. Any adjustment, however, which would save the empty plot behind Gore would establish a basic formula for future progress, rapid or leisurely, toward a Yard of insured openness...
Cyrano de Bergerac's verses were bright, rousing, full of Gascon gallantries. His rapier was rapid. But his nose was freakishly long, disfiguring. Therefore he felt frustrated in his love affair with Roxanne, and Edmond Rostand's famed heroic comedy turns into tragedy. Cyrano has made theatrical history in the versions of Constant Coquelin and Richard Mansfield. In the. U. S., of late years, Walter Hampden has honored both himself and the role. On Christmas night he revived Cyrano, scored again. Ingeborg Torrup was a new, petite, luscious Roxanne...