Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...riders have had a rather unsuccessful season in contrast to their Yale opponents. However, they have been laboring under several handicaps and have shown rapid improvement in the last few weeks in stiff scrimmages with the University mallet-weilders...
...consider for a moment these conditions of European student life. I may divide the courses of the rapid development of the European Student Federation into two important categories: economical and moral...
...voltage was increased things began to happen to the hydrogen atoms it encountered. Suddenly they began to emit radiation of a definite wavelength, measurable as a single line in a light spectrum. The hydrogen atoms had been excited, their electrons swinging out into wider, more madly rapid orbits. The voltage of the current was increased again, until a second line appeared in the spectrum, indicating that the hydrogen atoms had achieved a still higher state of excitement, were throwing off a new kind of light. Comparing the voltages employed to produce these effects, Dr. Compton found that the ratio checked...
...French woman. Onetime King Manuel of Portugal, Grand Duke Michael of Russia, ex-King George of Greece, the Rajah of Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...
...thus unfortunate to confine his discernment to features of size, speed and novelty. Industrialism tends to emphasize a rapid rhythm at the expense of a lingering over the rich notes. When one rose is about to flower and one tree about to bear, whole gardens of novelties and orchards of variations are already in bud. Time is not left to determine whether the apple, apart from its fractional refinements, is socially palatable, much less to test its elder worth in the press of speculation...