Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highlight of the Band's formations was a shield enclosing a "D", followed by letters of "Harvard" formed in rapid succession...
...representatives of a Wall Street group, headed by Securities Salesman John J. Bergen, which had sold Breeze common stock to the public. In August 1938, SEC slapped down a stop order, charged that Breeze had overstated the value of its patents and its future sales prospects, implied that such rapid expansion should inspire conservatism in the corporation's statement of its worth. After subsequent amendments, the order was lifted...
...statement also warned that the notes, because of their, brevity, do not give the student the correct interpretation of a mass of facts. "The upshot of this treatment is that the notes are too incomplete to reproduce the essential reading, too long to be effective for rapid review, and too brief to deal with the vital interpretation...
...Soviet Navy, while noting that Britain and France have a superiority in tonnage of 374% over the Reich Navy, argued that German "blows to the British merchant marine on the seas and in ports, simultaneously with repeated air attacks on [British and French] industrial centres can lead to rapid, decisive results. . . . The treaty of friendship and development of economic relations with the Soviet Union and the security of Baltic trade routes make Germany independent of sea transport passing through the North...
...response to the alarm was so rapid that the headquarters police were telephoning to find out why the alarm was sent in when the others arrived. The vice-President and Treasurer of the trust company, Phippen, who happened to be outside the building, let the police in. By this time a crowd of 50 people had gathered outside expecting to see a hand-cuffed bandit brought forth...