Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rapid succession Herrick and Red Lowman tallied and the Crimson was never again headed despite the opposing team's last minute drive...
...Having worked in the U. S. since 1926, making change in subway stations and selling Catholic art to Pennsylvania miners, Mike Quill three and a half years ago organized the Transport Workers of America, a healthy C.I . 0. affiliate which this summer signed New York's Interborough Rapid Transit Co. to its first closed shop contract. Unionist Quill, who wears a shamrock stickpin and estimates that 80% of his transport workers are fellow Irishmen, jokes: "It took the labor movement of America to bring the Irish people together...
Each morning Dr. Thorndike spends exactly eight minutes reading the newspaper, each night reads himself to sleep with Punch, a detective story or the encyclopedia. An exceedingly rapid reader, he has read through both the Britannica and the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. He is colorblind, cannot drive a car. Once, walking with his brother in Boston, he saw a golf club in a store window. They bought it, went home and looked up golf in the encyclopedia, then experimented in the back yard with the one club, a ball and two tomato cans...
Until the German dictator came on the scene, he explained, France was in a position both from a political and military point of view to make her will felt. Results of the rapid revitalization in Germany were closely watched in France with the result that the latter came to fix her attention more and more on the Rhine...
...would not be difficult for the desk clerks to inspect the margins of the pages of each book when it is returned, as this would merely involved a rapid thumbing of the pages to see if any ink or pencil had been applied to the text by amateur artists or writers. This would make it much easier to apprehend the criminal, and this systematic check in itself would deter youthful vandals from their own desires to destroy University property...