Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--Administration, leaders tonight gave the "quick action" signal to a program to amend and liberalize the Social Security Act early in the forthcoming session of Congress to combat the rapid growth of more sweeping old-age pension schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, said his group will begin a thorough study of "liberalization" proposals as soon as Congress convenes and that such legislation would take precedence over the administration's tax program...
...Wilson invented the cloud chamber. This device makes visible the fantastically rapid paths, straight, curved, or broken, of electrons and other subatomic particles. The cloud chamber contains water vapor or other fluid vapor which, suddenly expanded by a piston, condenses along the particle paths in fog droplets that show up in photographs as white streaks...
Charleston, S. C.--Soldiers of the regular army and National Guardsmen tonight patrolled 30 debris strewn blocks of this historic old southern city where two rapid -fire tornadoes had killed more than a score of persons, injured 350 and piled up property damage estimated to exceed...
When the ordeal of Midyears is over, he will be granted the power to place exceptionally brilliant Freshmen under a system of limited tutorial whereby they will make more rapid strides in their initial year than was formerly possible...
...introduced into the blood to prevent coagulation. No change was made in the blood volume of either animal, but the two blood streams were thoroughly mixed until the urea of the nephrectomized (kidney-less) dog was distributed fairly evenly throughout the blood of both animals. The normal dog rapidly excreted the urea of the nephrectomized dog. Ten experiments were reported. In practically all cases the kidney-lender made a rapid recovery. In many cases the nephrectomized dog was in good condition at the conclusion of the experiment...