Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Followed 40 minutes of rapid-fire debate, no man talking more than a minute or two. Some Republicans objected to the Speaker's "steamroller methods." Finally the momentous roll-call began, droning through 435 names. His face flushed with disappointment, Speaker Garner huskily announced the result: 272 for Repeal; 144 against. The resolution had failed by six votes to muster a two-thirds majority, was lost. The Drys cheered feebly, the House adjourned...
...Army's points in the discussion of eligibility rules has always been that many of its best football players would be eligible anywhere. Jack Buckler, a yearling from Waco, substitute this season for Ken Fields, is a case in point. So is rapid little Quarterback Vidal. Brother of a famed Army end, Gene Vidal, who was on the team in 1916-17, he finished school at 15, waited a year, entered Wrest Point when he was still under age. This season, his first as a member of the first-string team, he was Army's best broken field...
This set-up economizes the energy thrown into the ultra short waves. Theoretically those waves, which approach light waves in rapid brevity, should behave like light and travel only in straight lines. Theoretically such waves cannot bend around Earth's circumference and thus serve to carry messages long distances. But Inventor Marconi has been communicating with them across 180 mi. Says he: ". . . For some reason . . . the waves are deflected and travel further than they should according to theory...
...pipe when blown into by mouth was about 161-that is, three octaves below the keynote of the scale previously indicated," observed Sir Richard. Evidently, "the wind was playing on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th overtones of the pipe, and the melody was being produced by the rapid fluctuations of wind-pressure." The mystery and his solution make Sir Richard "wonder whether such an effect can ever have occurred in Nature-a broken bamboo stem, for example, partially obstructed at its windward end, and so shielded by vegetation, soil, etc., as to produce a pressure difference between...
...point of fact, experience of this kind in rapid and clear writing is of material aid in studies, and incidentally all candidates are expected and required to keep off probation...