Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dividing line, often overstepped, beyond which they cease to be beneficent and become actually dangerous and harmful. That they are a necessary outgrowth of existing economic conditions is shown by the fact that they have increased in the teeth of active competition. The chief factors in this rapid growth are the limited liability of the investors in a corporation, and the tremendous power without a corresponding responsibility which lies in the hands of the directors and managers of the corporation to control prices and thus to injure competitors...
...Parsons graduated from Columbia University in 1879, and received the degree of C.E. three years later. In 1898 he went to China, and spent a year there building the Canton-Hankow Railway. From 1894 to 1904 he was chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York, and acting in this capacity, constructed the whole underground transit system of the city. In 1904 he was made a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission and in 1905 went to Panama as a member of the Consulting Board of Engineers. He has also been a member of the Royal Commission...
...Beginning with the study of medicine, a rapid assimilation of western education took place. The revolutionary ideas thus brought about made possible the peaceful restoration of the imperial dynasty in 1868. At that time an oath of five articles was sworn to by the emperor. As a result of this oath the feudal system was abolished. Owing to the leadership of the late Prince Ito this and the other reforms were not brought about without great difficulty. Their success can only be ascribed to the far-sightedness of the Emperor and to the great devotion of all his subjects...
...latter half the second team forwards were used and Chadwick replaced Smart at goal. Six minutes after the half began Brae Burn scored their only goal from a scrimmage in front of the net. Following this, the University team braced and scored three times in rapid succession...
...already won the reputation of a lecturer and story-teller of note and has devoted himself to the cause of the protection of game and birds in this country. The organization of which he was the founder has been instrumental in bringing to public notice the facts of the rapid extinction of American game and in showing the necessity for legislation to prevent its disappearance in some sections of the country...