Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Georgia's Athletic Director H. J. Stegman reported that in two southern conferences comprising 23 colleges, there had been no less than 91 football coaches since 1922. He attributed the rapid turnover to six types of coach...
...forever dead and a new world that was not fully born, whom would the discerning and alert U. S. citizen pick as Man of the Year? Notably barren of candidates was the British Commonwealth. Pious Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald's London Economic Conference was a notorious fiasco. In rapid succession, France dealt and discarded three Cabinets in twelve months, produced no leader sufficiently bold or capable to rescue her from the climbing quicksands of insolvency. In Russia Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff was a hero for his success in bringing about . S. recognition of the U. S. S. R., but that...
...recent, rapid discoveries of particles in the atom have sent physicists back to their Greek dictionaries. Hydrogen No.1 (most common) is beginning to be called protium, Hydrogen No. 2 deuterium. Hydrogen No. 3 will therefore have to be tritium. Protium's nucleus is the proton, deuterium's the denton, and tritium's (probably) the triton. After them, in Nature's system of elements, comes helium (atomic weight approximately 4). The helium atom's nucleus is the alpha particle which, in the full round of substances, again appears during the disintegration of the heaviest...
Administrator Johnson was in high dudgeon last week when the monthly Federal Reserve Board Bulletin stated: "The decline in industrial activity during the past two months has come in large measure in the industries in which expansion previously had been most rapid. It has also been marked in industries in which processing taxes or codes have become effective recently...
From the outset the story moves at a rapid pace, short brisk chapters, each one which brings a new complex of situations or new discoveries to . The dialogue and characters are very convincing and the dull moments that do occur lost thought of by reason of the inevitability with which the dilemma arises at the end of every chapter...