Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rapid Growth...
...rapid succession came Wolff's and Parker-Cramer, who now compete for leadership in the field of widely advertised mass reviews. In 1936 Fairfax Hall became important in the prepared notes and "trot" field. The latest school is that established in 1937 by Charles Marshall Underwood...
...thin and superficial continuity, to be sure, is often attempted in what are known as "rapid survey" courses, where innumerable slides appear in swift succession upon the screen, with equally swift comments by the instructor. At the end of such a course, the victim of this "speed-up" system is expected to "identify" a goodly number of slides, and will doubtless pass the rest of his life comfortably unaware of the distinction between recognition and understanding. In such fashion, as one college catalogue once stated, "the student learns to recognize the old masters upon sight." To be on speaking terms...
...Benito Mussolini. The speed, precision and preparation with which Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
Seniors and graduate students will be able to take a course in "The History of the Book" next year, according to an authoritative announcement from Widener Library yesterday. The new course marks the latest stepping-stone in the rapid progress of the recently created Department of Printing and Graphic Arts...