Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the turnover among women swimmers is phenomenally rapid is one of the axioms of the sport. Encouraging to coaches, who expect serious competition at next year's Olympic games, was the demonstration at last week's meet that new swimmers are now arriving on the scene not singly but in bunches. Familiar to rotogravure readers are the Rawls sisters-Katherine (18), Evelyn (16), Dorothy (15), Peggy (10). Evelyn last week finished third in the free-style mile, fourth in the medley. Dorothy was fourth in the 220-yd. breast stroke. Peggy stayed at home. At Manhattan Beach...
...afternoon last week there was something like pandemonium in Rapid City, S. Dak. Sirens screamed; storekeepers thrust exuberant signs in windows; offices closed early. By midnight most of Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City...
Enacted last week against the lively backdrop of current Ontario politics was a rapid little drama in which Ontario's dimple-chinned Premier Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn, who has been loudly promoting a provincial New Deal, played the hero and the bankers were cast as the villains. What gave this hoary theme a sudden and surprising twist, however, was the fact that the villains, instead of knuckling under as they had done in the U. S., cracked down on the hero...
...physiological mechanism which produces exophthalmic goitre remains a medical puzzle. In typical cases the thyroid is enlarged and the eyeballs protrude from their sockets. But neither pop eyes nor big neck are essential symptoms of exophthalmic goitre. A rapid pulse, moist skin and loss of weight, despite a good appetite, suggest the disease. The patient is restless and irritable, laughs and cries easily, becomes angry and excited at the least provocation, is comparatively insensitive to cold. An unfailing test for exophthalmic goitre is the basal metabolism rate, measured by a simple breathing machine. If after a long rest...
...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...