Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus especially needs not merely a severe training in established facts and methods but training also that will give him a background which will permit him to comprehend further progress and to progress himself with it. In order words no one more needs some training in rapid but critical reading. Until recently, however, the pressure upon the medical student was such that it was extremely difficult for him to do reading aside from the text books that the routine demands...
...recently placed before it by the officials of the Radio Corporation of America the volume of news carried will almost certainly double many times. Since one of the chief obstacles to U. S.-Japanese accord has been the lack of mutual understanding fostered by the absence of cheap and-rapid intercommunication, the progress of this development is eagerly awaited...
This progress, in education augurs well for a balanced development. Rapid economic advance can only be assimilated to culture by concurrent educative progress. The sudden advent of material prosperity could easily have effected a distorted sense of values and hence a narrowness of life. But the South can yet reconcile her new materialism with the old culture, if the present forward program of education is continued...
...could easily be cut in two--especially "Pamela"--; and most tutorial conferences might well be shortened if those engaging in them did not light cigarettes or talk of things lighter than Burton's masterpiece. Probably in any organization other than Harvard time clocks and efficiency experts make learning more rapid, more modern, more businesslike...
...from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week-Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa-the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a reporter put the French into English...