Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...buildings being erected by the University have progressed rapidly during the past month. The northern part of the Widener Memorial Library has been roofed over, so that the interior finishing of this section can be pushed rapidly; and the brick and stone work throughout the entire building has been completed. Within the next three weeks work will begin on the interior construction throughout, which can go on uninterrupted by the cold weather, since the temporary heating facilities have been completed. From the rapid advances made during the past month it is certain that the building will be ready for dedication...
...University Rifle team begins the important games of the season when it shoots against Purdue at the Cadet Armory this evening at 7 o'clock. The rapid improvement of the team warrants the expectation that this will be the best match...
...various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows that the increase in weight from the nineteenth to the twenty-third year is only eight pounds. The average weight of a boy at nineteen is 139.4 pounds or 1.7 pounds more than...
...progress on the new skating rink has been rapid and the first practice was held on Sunday, January 20. During the week the basketball team was defeated by Wesleyan 31 to 19 in a fast and hard game, but won from Pennsylvania 26 to 23. On Friday evening the University swimming team defeated the City College of New York in a swimming meet held in the Carnegie pool by a score of 46 to 7. After the meet the C. C. N. Y. water polo team was defeated by Yale, 50 to 8. On Wednesday a general call was issued...
...show the rapid march of events in England, Mr. Lansbury described the Dublin transport workers' strike. It has marked as important and as definite an epoch in the industrial history of England as did the great dock-workers' strike of the nineties, which heralded the birth of the new unionism. Its effect has been to make Catholics and Ulstermen, in Belfast and Dublin, forget their religious and racial animosities, and join in the struggle for industrial emancipation...