Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite this puree of parties and conflicting internal programs, the winning ticket last week got off to an effective start. In rapid succession it: 1) pardoned all Nacistas arrested for their abortive Putsch; 2) demanded and got the resignations of seven top-rank army leaders, among them the commander-in-chief as well as the head of the civil guards responsible for the bloody suppression of the Nacistas; 3) received the routine resignations of 15 ambassadors; 4) submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a decree permitting former President Alessandri to leave Chile for "a rest" in Europe, despite a Constitutional...
...temporary expedient, it would seem much more practical to set up, instead of two distinct graduate eating organizations, one large all-inclusive society. For the time being it would probably have to content itself with the basement of Andover Hall, but the success of the undertaking would mean a rapid expansion and additional dining halls. The matter of moment, however, is to get as much food for as many people possible, in as effort a time as possible...
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...primer of the Balkans would begin by describing them as a backward group of peewee States (Yugoslavia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece) whose combined outline is wedge-shaped like South America's. Like the South American States, the Balkans have been characterized by their propensity for rapid and explosive political change, by their archaic society, which has kept the land largely primitively agricultural and industrially undeveloped. The 310,000 square miles of Balkan territory are naturally rich. Economically this territory is important to both Germany and England because it is a source of raw materials and a market for manufactured...
...Fantus has found so far that about 50% of his subjects, all of whom are healthy, show no noticeable change in intestinal movements, that the other 50% show more rapid movement of feces through the intestinal tract. Said he last week...