Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...understanding that comes with a long perspective; there is a judicious tolerance towards contemporary institutions that grows from a grasp of past usefulness; and there is an impetus to orderly progress in the description and analysis of those present-day adjustments through which perplexed communities aim to regulate the rapid and often extreme transitions that art a phenomenon of modern life. Broadly, the application of these observations to one of America's most distinguished political experiments--the Massachusetts town meeting--forms the purpose of this brief study...
...bank, because of insufficient collateral, refused the Government money sufficient for its needs, and the Government, contrary to the contract, began coining money to meet the emergency. Differences developed, during which the bank appealed to the United States for help. Before help could come there were two revolutions in rapid succession, and the bank in high alarm asked the United States to send a warship, and quickly. But when this arrived the bank's chief concern proved to be the shipment to New York of gold belonging in whole or in part to the Haitian Government...
...accidently slipped the puck by Grodberg for the first score for the Crimson. Shortly after this, Berholtz was put off the ice for tripping, and the Terriers found themselves unable to stave off the bitter onslaught of the Harvard forwards, and two goals were scored on them in rapid succession...
There would seem to be no justifiable reason for not having some free time between the end of classes and the beginning of the examination period. Even one day would be of considerable assistance to those who are burdened with a number of examinations coming in rapid succession. Either this, or the first day of the period should be reserved for those courses which have the smallest attendance...
Chicago, with its extreme concentration of business activity and business population in the "loop' 'area, offered the next detailed traffic survey undertaken by the Bureau. Congestion in the "loop" area was fostering an abnormally rapid decentralization of business activity. During the twelve-hour period of the average business day over a million and a half people entered and left this small area. The movement was complicated by the movement of more than 300,000 street vehicles...