Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the present administration of the Hygiene Department, minor ailments and more serious illnesses have been capably handled by men handicapped only by purely mechanical inconveniences. During this epidemic of grippe, many students are confinen to their rooms instead of being quartered at the Infirmary. This condition endangers rapid spread of the disease and is altogether an inconvenient and make-shift arrangement. Until Stillman is completely remodelled instituting modern scientific improvements and increasing the capacity to prevent overflows in the future, Dr. Bock and the students will have to bear the present situation, but not, it is hoped, silently...
After the political conventions, M. B. S. in rapid succession added more than a dozen stations to its network in New England and the Midwest, reached into the South. Most important, the Don Lee Broadcasting System of California decided to sever relations with C. B. S. and join. M. B. S. This switch, effected last week, raised Mutual's station list...
...their names carved in oak panels in the dining hall. Girls are subject to constant British roll calls to which they answer their last name. For exercise Rosemarians play hockey, ride with Miss Lowndes, whose inveterate sidesaddle horsewomanship is reputedly attested by a platinum rib, or go for "bounds" (rapid walks...
Talcott's own funds are supplemented by borrowing from banks at low rates. The paper it buys is short-term, the turnover rapid. Income is derived from interest on the money it advances and from commissions for the services it performs. For the first nine months of this year the Talcott profits were $419,000 on a volume...
...infuriated for the rest of his life when critics continued to call him an Impressionist. Painting outdoors gave him a cold in the head. He could not understand the experiments with broken light of Monet and Pissarro. All Degas' famed sporting pictures were painted in his studio from rapid pencil sketches. Though one of the greatest of figure painters, he despised women. "Little rats" was his favorite term for the ballet dancers who posed for his great pastel studies, and he seemed to take a malicious delight in twisting them into uncomfortable postures...