Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hughes took as his theme the waste of national energy and the duty of American universities to develop a desire for serenity, reflection, sobriety of reason, and calmness of judgment, saying: "To the extent that the University merely reproduces the rush, the hustle, and the rapid give and take of life, to the extent that it fails to yield serenity and reflection, it sacrifices its great capacity for service in a tumultuous world...
...watchman was employed on the premises, there was no way of determining the cause, although it is thought to have originated in an electrical short circuit. The first engines arrived at midnight, and in rapid succession more came in from firehouses in Brighton in response to the third and fourth alarms...
...Extension Institute, agree that the banking institutions of Wall Street are breeding-places for tuberculosis, anemia and other disease conditions among their women employees. There is not a bank in the "Street" that is not supporting one or more tuberculous employees in hospitals or sanitariums, says Mr. Curtis. The rapid, artificial, neurasthenic life; the poor physical standards of clerical workers; unhygienic clothes; the feminist cigarette are among the culprits blamed for these conditions. The Federal Reserve Bank has an efficient medical department with six nurses and five doctors, and provides six months' leave on salary for employees who need...
...registration of 930 men in the Freshman class. When the enrollment figures for the entering class rise in three years from 621 to 930, no question of classification of transfers can after the fundamental fact that the size of the student body is increasing at a dangerously rapid rate...
...entireely new backfield of McGlone at quarterback and Rogers, Cordingly and Lock wood next went back to the team A line and from then on the replacements and substitutions became very rapid...