Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sweeping reforms in the administration of the athletic department of Yale University are shortly to go into effect, was made known last night with the announcement of the plans for the fall meeting of the executive committee of the Yale Alumni Board. The changes, which are necessitated by the rapid development of competitive athletics as well as by arrangements for inter-House sports, are to be revealed by President James Rewland Angell at a meeting held today at the Yale Club of New York...
...market and whirled it up and out of control with buy-orders. Oldtime operators implored amateur speculators to be cautious, recalled that in 1896 on a shortage scare in India wheat climbed almost perpendicularly from 5 3 (Ho 94/. only to scale down again. "The advance is too rapid to be sound," they kept repeating to a public that did not want to hear. For was not the Farm Board bulling the market and Arthur Cutten predicting "Dollar Wheat...
...turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...
...This unexpected result established the sport more firmly than ever, and excited meetings were held and delegates sent to the Springfield convention to assure a place for Dartmouth in the schedule for the next annual race. The crew went at once to Enfield, to practice on still water, and rapid progress was made in the development...
Despite this progress, surprisingly rapid since 1902 and surprisingly sane, the chasm which separated the educated privileged classes from the uneducated masses has not yet been fully bridged. Much remains to be done before the selfish old system which reserved education for the privileged classes is finally overthrown, but it is only fair to say that today both the "public schools" and the universities of England, old as well as new, are open to talent, no matter what the accidents of birth. At Oxford it has been recently shown, "out of 1,263 male students who matriculated in the year...