Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unless the anesthetist and surgeon take precautions, four out of five patients who undergo abdominal operations suffer partial collapse, wrote Dr. Henderson. Their respiration is shallow, their pulse rapid. In most cases this can be prevented if the surgeon "traumatizes as little as possible" and if the patient whiffs at carbon dioxide off & on for three or four hours after the operation. The carbon dioxide stimulates the lungs to breathe deeply, thus raises the body's general tone...
Though they dominated the play straight through the game the Yardlings found themselves, in the fourth period one goal down and ten minutes to go. Here the attack finally began to function, with Phil Hammond, John Sinnott, and Captain Dick Lowis clicking out three goals in rapid succession...
...reading of poetry--in his study; they were not and are not popular poems. On the other hand, poetic names, whether they be tragedies, comedies, or historical plays, have only one legitimate excuse for being: they exist in order to be performed on the stage. Stage performance is too rapid to allow for works which 'communicate before they are understood'. Understanding is essential to communication...
Finally Dr. Townsend arrived at a matter which has lately rankled deep in his generous heart: "And now, my friends let ; admonish you against insidious and hurtful propaganda that may arise within your ranks. The very rapid development to our organization ... has made it inevitable that inefficiency and selfish ambition and even rank dishonesty should find lodgment among us Some [local] leaders...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...