Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the jumble of U. S. life needs some sort of long-range, large-scale economic and social planning. Almost like a definition of Communist tenets was this committee observation on the U. S.: "Of the great social organizations, two, the economic and the governmental, are growing at a rapid rate, while two others, the church and the family, have declined in social significance, although not in human values. . . . Church and family have lost many of their regulatory influences over behavior...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
...There are two aspects to this new theory, a critical or negative one, and the constructive one," Mason continued. "I should say that the critical point of view is that the rate of technical change is so rapid that the price system offers inadequate possibilities of reabsorption for the laborers thrown out of work by economic change. The technocrats spend their time in drawing up charts to show that the price system is doomed and that unemployment will continue even in good times. But there are so many difficulties in getting accurate figures from which conclusions may be drawn that...
...late Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) recited similarly as early as 1921 when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...West wood trio attained an early lead of four to one in the first two chukkers; and both teams made a point in the third. By this time the Crimson had caught its second wind, and started off the fourth period with a rush, scoring four times in rapid succession, and, for a while, tying the Greenshirts. The fifth chukker saw the hardest riding of the evening, with one point scored by the Varsity. The sixth and last meeting was tight and studied, each team striving to shove home the deciding point and at the same time ride...