Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very rapid development of the junior college as part of the public educational system in the West has been a significant part of the movement to separate the more elementary college education from that which can be called advanced. In order to make accommodations to this conception of education the "lower division" under general University supervision has been organized at Stanford, covering the first two years of college work. After that period a broad basis for the granting of the A.B. degree has been obtained through the organization of the whole University in to the following schools--Biological Sciences, Engineering...
...their gold earrings and beat them into crucifixes. Spanish-American War adventurers, trekking inland, were greeted by natives crying "Ado Balatoc Bantay!" ("Lots of gold in the mountains.") But geological disturbances, dense vegetation, frequent droughts and lack of modern machinery kept the infant industry of the Philippines from rapid development. Not until last year did Philippine business men really begin to discover how much balatoc there was in the bantay and what it was worth. One day last autumn an old man strode down the streets of Manila waving a bottle. Men buttonholed him on the sidewalks. "They all want...
...deciding factor which has immeasurably aggravated the tension is the decline of French dominance over Europe. The defection of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Austria has really broken up an alignment which was the main bulwark of her "security." With the more or less open and certainly rapid rearming of Germany, and the upstart manoevering of Mussolini--which produced the Balkan pact--France finds herself in an unobtrusive backseat. The League has gone, the Treaty with it, Germany is on the road back, (with an obvious goal,) and internally France is weakened by uncertainly--the stage could not better...
...world today, was born in Reval, Esthonia, in January, 1887, and was educated in the Universities of Tubingen, Bonn, and Berlin. It was at Berlin that he received his Doctor's degree, and since then has become the leading exponent of the "Gestalt" school of psychology, which has gained rapid favor in recent years...
...chorus girls. Last week Mrs. Roosevelt was brought to an abrupt halt by the sight of World's Champion Joe Pasco turning a punching bag into a rat-ta-tat-tatting blur with his fists, head, elbows, feet. ''My goodness!" she remarked. "Isn't he rapid...