Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been a crying need for new housing facilities at Radcliffe. Like all women's colleges her financial surplus is never large enough to warrant any great expenditure and this, in the past, has curtailed any plans of enlargement. The growth of the student body in late years has been rapid and Radcliffe has suffered accordingly from inadequate buildings. The recent addition, the gift of friends, is the first unit in a projected expansion which, when realized, will give the institution a modern and handsome surrounding. Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and other women's colleges have beautiful camp to their credit...
...chairman of the department, Professor Sorokin will have an opportunity to combine his intimate knowledge of the subject with a definite authority, enabling him to bring about a centralization and unity of purpose hitherto impossible. In other universities social ethics has made rapid strides in the past few years, and in many ways the research in this field is the most important now being undertaken by scholars. With the proper facilities at hand there is no reason why Harvard should not now develop an intelligent department which will be able to make contributions to the science of social development...
...Wedding Night (Paramount). Out of a complicated and rapid plot derived from an old bedroom farce (Little Miss Bluebeard) has been drawn the mood of good humor that is this picture's main distinction. Clara Bow does nothing much but does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does...
...lumbia University, is famed among editors for his consultant ability in reviving mori bund magazines. Other books: The Psy chology of Happiness, The Twilight of the American Mind, The Art and Business of the Short Story, How to Write Stories, Must We Fight Japan?, The Art of Rapid Reading, The Art of Sound Pictures (with William M. Marston: TIME...
Died. Frank Richards Ford, 59, Manhattan engineer, member of the famed engineering firm Ford, Bacon & Davis, a director of L. C. Smith and Corona Typewriters, Inc., consulting engineer and director of six other companies, planner of the Philadelphia rapid transit system and the unification of electric street railways in Chicago; after an operation, at the Medical