Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copies are sold. This change in conditions is caused by several reasons. Perhaps the greatest factor in the change is the Radio. Since its invention and its broadcasting of music, songs become known by the public much sooner than they used to be when the victrola was the most rapid means of conveying it from ear to ear. Today a piece of music is literally worn out by Radio. No good piece that the public likes can possibly last more than a few months at the rate it is now being heard by the public, daily...
...came to Harvard and passed two and a half years here, taking his degree in 1915. Although his record here caused no especial comment as at that time it was in those two and a half years that he developed the knowledge and the ability which made his rapid rise later in China possible. He is one of the large group of students who, having obtained a foreign education, now form the back-bone of the Nationalist movement...
...interesting complexity of the relations not only between the individual and other individuals, but between the individual and society at large was traced from the beginnings of the United States. Nowadays, President Hibben pointed out, the centripetal forces of the rapid growth and development of the nation have driven us more and more closely together. The superficial antithesis which sets the individual over against society, in seeming opposition to each other, must inevitably rise, he declared, to a more profound view which holds to a higher synthesis which recognizes the interdependence of all individuals in working out a common...
...population arguments based upon the data of economics and of vital statistics. In part we of the States are apathetic to the difficulties of the population problem because inordinate stores of natural resources, available at a time when scientific discovery promoted rapid exploitation, have made us what one might call a hopelessly optimistic nation. No evil day can possibly dawn upon us; we are too clever. Secretary Hoover may say, "Increasing population will force the United States to advance in scientific discovery or to lower its standard of living." No matter. We will meet all obstacles and surmount them. Knibbs...
...Rays for Rapid Drying: Dr. William D. Coolidge recently produced powerful cathode rays (TIME, Nov. 1). To show a possible use for them, wet paint was exposed to rays from the cathode tube. It dried rapidly.?Professor J. S. Long, Lehigh University...