Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Manton appointed Thomas E. Murray Jr. receiver for New York City's biggest subway, Interborough Rapid Transit-a procedure normally performed by inferior District Court judges. For this the U. S. Supreme Court criticized Circuit Court Judge Martin Manton and he withdrew from the I. R. T. case though Receiver Murray remained. Last week a U. S. Attorney revealed that Thomas E. Murray Jr. owned about 16% of the stock of Forest Hills Terrace Corp., another Manton enterprise...
...Frederick Albert Saunders of Harvard, in collaboration with Virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. Their conclusion (announced last week at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Manhattan): A Stradivarius violin, when played slowly, is not superior in tone to the best modern instruments, but responds more quickly when difficult rapid passages are played-a result probably of aging, not of the makers' skill...
...Baltimore. Adding designers, draftsmen, withdrawing more & more from designing to administer the business, Martin turned out better & better models in rapid succession. He swapped little information with other manufacturers, became known as a sombre lone wolf. From the Cleveland plant came the first plane built specifically for mail service, the first metal American monoplane, of which the Navy bought 36, the first bomber with an alloy-steel fuselage, of which the Navy bought...
...short, highbrowed, big-nosed author of Men of Good Will, whose desire to report the whole life of his time in one novel has carried his book to its 15th volume. Listening as Author Romains reported P. E. N.'s change of front in 60 minutes of rapid-fire French sat writers from lands as far apart as Chile and China, delegates from Australia, Uruguay, Finland, South Africa-Germany's Thomas Mann and Ernst Toller, Spain's Pedro Salinas, China's Lin Yutang, France's André Maurois, the U. S.'s Dorothy Thompson...
...living a solitary life in the Harvard Yard, the plan has found within itself the seeds of growth and dissemination. It was first adopted by Manhattanville College. Just recently Radcliffe and Brown planted the first seeds on their campuses. More than the ideal of service is embodied in this rapid maturity. Its importance in the college curriculum is due to two factors: the opportunity for students to participate in an educational experiment, and even more, to coordinate their own studies with the realm of experience...