Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Art Institute.* This was the 18th-Century Venetian, Giambattista Tiepolo, a full-blown baroque virtuoso far removed from the devout art of the Middle Ages. Not half so rich in paintings as the Chicago show, the Metropolitan's boasted more of Tiepolo's round, rapid sketches and one of his ceilings, famed for the azure into which he tossed swirling goddesses, angels and garlands of cherubs to float upward, bottoms down, in heavenly perspective...
Another Johnson hope is lightweight Harvey Ross who has fallen victim to blind grappler Allman of Penn and undefeated 118-pounder Mallon of Yale. Because of his rapid improvement and his records against Penn State and Princeton, observers are counting on him to advance to the final round on Saturday...
...year ago there was ground for concern that a too rapid rise in the prices of some commodities was encouraging a speculative boom. During the past six months, on the other hand, the general price level and industrial activity have been declining. Government policy must be directed to reversing this deflationary trend...
...This does not mean that all prices should advance, nor that the rise should be rapid. Prices of different groups of products must be brought into balanced relations to one another...
...most disturbing thing about this new Administration declaration of policy, is not the rapid, inconsistent reversals in ideas and theories. The country is, or should be, used to that by now. The implications, however, of Mr. Roosevelt's various statements about high or low prices should be, go a good deal deeper. They reveal that the President believes the federal government should have ultimate authority over all prices, so that eventually Washington will be able to set prices at the levels it thinks proper. And when all the factors that go into the making of prices are considered, it rapidly...