Word: rapidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army and Navy men. With the U. S. battle fleet at far-away Hawaii, an enemy fleet was thought to be snoring up the Atlantic Coast to attack Hampton Roads. The U. S. Joint Army and Navy Board, having perfected plans for just such an emergency, proceeded with a rapid, potent mobilization of coast defense units at the mouth of Chesapeake...
After tying the score at the end of the first period, 3 to 3, the home team held the Quakers in check until the closing minutes. Then Edwards broke up the game by scoring two goals in rapid succession...
Each one of these substances, when injected into the animal body has a specific effect. One of them, the phosphatide fraction, makes cells grow wildly and rapidly, giving the effect of cancer. Over 20 laboratories and organizations are cooperating in the research under the joint guidance of the Public Health Service and the National Tuberculosis Association: the results justify hope of a more rapid solution of this baffling disease. Dr. White feels that the same scientific concentration method should be applied to fields of study in industry, agriculture, medicine...
...dangers he sees, turning from the past to look into the future. First, he finds that the cost of high pressure distribution is beginning to offset the saving of mass productions. In the second place, mass production is threatened by hand-to-mouth buying, fostered by the need for rapid distribution and the consequently developed habit of rapid "style-change". And in the third place, Mr. Mazur sees danger to our prosperity from a change in the European trade balance...
This annual concentration meeting is an essential and very valuable preliminary to the process of picking future fields of study which will engross the Freshman mind for the next month. But it is only a preliminary. Consultations, advice, decisions, reconsiderations, and more decisions will follow each other in rapid succession until five o'clock on May 2 and the threat of a five dollar fine finally bring the doubtful to a decision...