Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass pessimism about the future, and a consequent reluctance to make future commitments. The Recession is also remarkable because, of all the men in the U. S. who had the statistical information about it at hand, Franklin Roosevelt was apparently the last man to see it coming. Rapid but not remarkable were the first of the moves with which he undertook, last week, to battle Recession...
...battles against a "Red" Army which the P. I. D., split up into small details, functioned successfully in attack, retreat, flank and encirclement maneuvers. Last week the P. I. D. had had time to become sufficiently well coordinated to show what it could really do in the way of rapid motion. On Nov. 8, after a breakfast of 12,000 apples, 24,000 eggs, 560 Ib. of coffee, the P. I. D., operating with 10,000 men set out from San Antonio in three columns to bivouac grounds 150 miles farther North. Two successive night marches, made in complete darkness...
...your bosom as an isolated problem. Instead think of it in relation to your general health and well being. . . . An adept masseuse may treat your bosom without causing injury but you might better have spent your time and money on a merry-go-round. . . . Freak diets which cause rapid reduction ravage the bosom. . . . If your breasts are out of fashion today, they may be in fashion tomorrow...
...been called the "ablest figure painter in America," is at least one of the ablest and most forceful draftsmen of the nude in the U. S. At last week's exhibition his portrait heads, still lifes and landscapes were unexceptionable, but several of his nudes showed that his rapid, unerring draftsmanship has not faded with the years...
...reader to examine closely his every word. Thus he acquaints us with the opinions of many persons less articulate than he, and the discussion of his essays among imperfectly educated people whose occupations do not allow them time for prolonged intellectual work always provides the occasion for the rapid raising of vital questions...