Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great wonder, clutching at the bare face of a cliff to find support where there was not a root or weed to grasp. There was the momentary retention of position in the sphere of the light, then the same abrupt relaxation of their unaccountable grip and the rapid descent as in the lives of men he had read about, like Shelley, perhaps, or Chatterton...
...Godwin and Walker are by no means the first to "freeze" rapid motion on photographic film. Perhaps the most famed high-speed photographer in the U. S. is Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who for some years has used stroboscopic (intermittently flashing) light to take 6,000 pictures per second...
Fred Morris has shown rapid improvement in the breast stroke, particularly in recent practice sessions...
...second weight of 128 pounds is Ted Schoenberg, who was perhaps the outstanding wrestler on the Freshman team last year. He is sure to show rapid development in the course of the year. Following, in the 136 pound class is "Ric" Richter, who grappled in several varsity matches last year. He was not outstandingly successful, but he always wrestled a hard, fast match...
Tall, handsome Professor Stanley Cobb, Dr. Deutsch's superior in Harvard who referred to his assistant's remarkable success, told how he had treated a 21-year-old girl who suffered from extremely rapid breathing. When she was a year old she had fallen into a cesspool and, in addition to shock, had contracted pneumonia. When she grew up she went to work for an asthmatic woman, whose condition made the girl more susceptible to psychiatric asthma. After 15 treatments by hypnosis, during which Dr. Cobb suggested that she breathe slowly, the girl was cured...