Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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German measles again became the prevalent source of worry around the Hygiene building, with the appearance of thirteen more cases yesterday. This rapid multiplication of roseate sufferers adds so greatly to the total in Stillman, that there are now more hands to hold than nurses to hold them. At present every House but Adams is represented among the afflicted, but the Gold Coasters entertain high hopes that they will soon crash through...
...publisher's office and a waterfront cabaret. It gives Constance Bennett a chance to pose in four different evening gowns and to prove, superfluously, that she is still the most affected young woman on the U. S. screen. Likely to be popular, because of its stars and a rapid-fire style in which Director Robert Leonard shows the influence of Frank Capra, After Office Hours contains one genuinely comic sequence: a lunchroom proprietor (Henry Armetta) working himself into a slow rage when his patrons comment disdainfully on his taste in radio entertainment...
Five weeks after embarking on its first annual session, the 74th Congress of the U. S. last week was still drifting along on the current of routine appropriation bills. Only one little rapid had been negotiated: the rejection of the World Court Protocol. Only one prominent landmark had been passed: the renewal of the RFC for two years. But the session floated in a placid pool on the brink of the legislative cataract into which it will plunge when it starts in earnest on the President's program...
Children learn the word "no" early, use it more & more frequently as they grow older. Just as rapid is the rise in the number of questions they ask. The number of commands issued, on the other hand, reaches a peak at the age of 4, declines slowly thereafter. Girls show a faster general rate of development than boys. They ask more questions, issue more commands, say more "noes," do more gossiping. Boys surpass them only in fondness for meaningless words, babblings, gurglings, imitations of animals...
John G. Penrod '36 has been elected captain of the Harvard Pistol Team, it was announced yesterday by Captain Lawrence B. Bixby. Penrod is present holder of the range record for rapid fire, with a score of 93, and was high scorer for the team in the December Metropolitan League Match and in the match with the University of Missouri on January...