Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Free Trade trend had been greatly strengthened from the first by Britain's emergence on the seas as the World's carrier, the nation that had most to gain by free and rapid trade among all nations...
What happened after that was so rapid, so out of keeping with what usually happens in Notre Dame games that 52,000 spectators who saw it found it hard to believe. Shaver threw two passes-one of 50 yd. to Sparling, another 23 yd. to Hall. Two downs later the ball was only 2 yd. nearer the goal. There were 60 seconds of the game left. Notre Dame, expecting another pass, saw Southern California's placekicker, Johnny Baker drop back to the 23-yd. line, saw the ball sail over the line of scrimmage, between the goal posts...
...selective method of admission. An accurate statement would give the numbers of applicants for admission as well as the numbers in attendance. It might also be objected that account should be taken of the rate of increase during recent years. But before 1920 there was already evidence that the rapid increase which followed the War had run its course and that numbers had become stabilized. In any case, broadly speaking, it would appear that hard times have not appreciably affected the total resort to American colleges...
...middle-aged Miss Fenwick arrived to visit her niece she and the taxi-driver would have been perturbed had they seen the notorious criminal clinging to the back tire. That same night Playwright Van Buren, big frog of the colony, was stabbed to death with an ice pick. In rapid succession came two other killings, several murderous attempts. By the time you have struggled after Inspector Andrews through tortuous experiments to his triumphant conclusion you will have snapped at so many red herrings by the way that you will welcome the not altogether probable denouement...
...announcement of the changes proposed was made for the first time on Thursday by President James Rowland Angell, who explained that the necessity of centralizing responsibility for the university's athletic organization, and the rapid development of intramural athletics under the house plan would result today in the radical revision of the constitution of the Yale Athletic Association...