Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period of free fall," he wrote, "was remarkably free from abnormal physical sensations. . . . Consciousness was unclouded, and ideation [thought] was rapid, precise, penetrating and clear...
Aeroembolism. After rapid ascent to high altitudes a pilot may be attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
...portly, potbellied, black-mustachioed Philadelphia lawyer named John Graver Johnson (tops among U. S. corporation lawyers and trust protectors of his time) drew up a noteworthy document. It was an iron-clad lease by which Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. promised to pay 49 small traction companies $7,100,000 a year for 999 years for the privilege of running its street cars over their right of way. For the stockholders of the 49 underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted...
...TIME erred, congratulates Willys-Overland on the rapid conversion of its birds from bush to hand...
...bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face of a new onslaught upon us by British propaganda. The picture which Mr. Stange presents is one of a rapid drift away from a combination of indifference and pacifism toward the general acceptance of the need for preparedness and even of some militarism for its own as well as for the Allied sake...