Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...past few months have witnessed the rapid spread of a movement among the industrial classes of Europe and America which threatens to undermine the very foundations of society and whose tenets run directly counter to those of a well ordered and peaceful democracy. The question of the hour with regard to what is known journalistically as "Bolshevism" is: where did it come from and whither does it tend...
...degree of A.M. at Harvard in 1888. In 1889 he became an assistant in physics in the University, in 1890 an instructor, in 1895 an assistant professor, and in 1905 he was made a full professor, and in addition Dean of the Scientific School. Such was the unusually rapid rise in the field of science of Wallace Clement Sabine...
...Junior company has been drilling each morning this week and rapid strides have been made. Temporary non-commissioned officers have been named for the company...
Germany's military might is beginning to crumble, and we now see the first effects of it not only on the western front but in Palestine and in Macedonia. The process of disintegration is not likely to be rapid for a long time, but there is conclusive evidence that it has begun. Some of the hardest fighting of the war is still to come, for when the actual invasion of German territory begins and the scene of war is transferred to German soil, the Impeial Government will be able to make a powerful appeal to the sentiment and interest...
There are important signs that the vast confusion and many mistakes of the early months of our participation in the war have been replaced by the efficiency of a more orderly administration. The shipping industry is moving forward and is now turning out vessels at a rapid rate. A fair investigation assures a proper reconstruction of aircraft production. We now have 700,000 men in France, with prospects of a million by July, and a million and a half by December. The latest draft move will effectively divert labor into productive channels. Our finances are good and our people have...