Word: rapidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...airplane propeller in rapid motion, electric bells, and a large number of xylophones, were employed by Antheil together with the regular orchestra scoring. The production was not well received...
...stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden compression of the chest when the lungs are fully inflated checks the flow of blood, produces a sudden fall in blood pressure, followed by a rapid reaction high above the normal...
...supply the needs of each and every uniformed soldier in wartime. Army arsenals would be capable of turning out only 1% of the artillery ammunition required by forces as large as the U.S. had in the field at the 1918 Armistice. The Army Ordnance Association perfects plans for the rapid conversion of private metal sheet & tube factories, for example, into shell factories ; keeps such factories' knowledge of shell-making up-to-date; plans for emergency purchases of raw materials; for orderly output and delivery of the finished product...
...style is rapid and sketchy, though poignant. Streeter gains his end in describing the natives, or a scene, or a hunt without pressing sentence after sentence upon us. Photographs in great number help us to gain a more thorough knowledge of what the author has seen. Perhaps more praise ought to be given the author for supplying us with such an amount of visual record; those who care to read the book will enjoy them; those who don't will suffer...
Following his graduation, Dr. Peabody made rapid strides in his chosen profession. He was at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in 1908 and 1909 in the position of assistant resident physician, and the following year he was made a fellow in pathology at the Johns Hopkins University. During 1911 and 1912 he was assistant resident physician at the Rockefeller Hospital, and from 1912 to 1915 he held the post of resident physician at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and later that of physician. Subsequently becoming visiting physician and director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, connected with...