Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five days, we thought we had fallen into an easy proposition. We quickly learned, however, that the three-class day was a great strain, and that two lectures were about all we could satisfactorily absorb. The lecture periods are fifty minutes long and filled for the most part by rapid taking of notes, with time out for the statement of a case by a student, with possible discussion and questions. There is not time for day dreaming, and frequently we must compare our notebooks after the hour in order to fill in blanks when we could not keep up with...
...wrong time. The stage properties become inextricably mixed with painters and carpenters, and the actors pace out their distances like boxers going to the corners of the ring. After everything has been done to assure "Dora's Dilemna", the play within "The Show Shop", a swift and rapid failure. New York throws its arms wide and hails it as the success of the season. Which all goes to prove oh, not very much...
...English say, "stood" for Parliament as a Liberal-and was defeated. So he became private secretary to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer. Soon satellites began to revolve around him and he became, if not popular, at least "well thought of." His political ascent was rapid...
While psychologists have been attempting to explain the eye in all its workings, Professor E. L. Chaffee A.M. '08 has been engaged in experiments on a single portion, the retina. The belief that the physical approach to an understanding of the eye will produce more rapid results than psychological experiments has actuated Professor Chaffee. Now after several years' aid from the Cancer Commission, he is enabled by the Milton awards to continue his experiments for another year...
...held by scientists and physicians. Experiments which attempt a psychological explanation of the ocular mechanism have been very drawn out, and as yet not altogether conclusive. Progress in experimentation upon the retina of the eye with a sensitive vacuum tube amplifier connected to a recording galvanometer has been unusually rapid...