Word: rapidity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time U. S. Federal Reserve Bank Governor-is able. When Ambassador Edge has no time to hang a baby's nipple around his neck and make a night of it with important visitors-Little Bob does this duty (see cut). But his chief functions are as a rapid, discreet translator for the Ambassador (whose French is not rapid), and to keep Paris newshawks from picking on the Embassy. They are so tame just now that before Little Bob sailed on the He de France last week the grateful newshawks gave him a fountain pen, gold mounted, suitably inscribed...
Progress on the dormitories rising on the site of the former Russell Hall is rapid, and contractors have announced that the connecting tunnel should be open by January 1, and the buildings be ready in the Spring, Associate Professor J. P. Baxter 3d, Master of the House, states...
...given to the nation to reconstruct the foundations of its life. The capitalist system has broken down even in those countries where its authority was thought to be most secure. . . . We must plan our civilization or perish. The Labor Party recognizes that the present situation calls for bold and rapid action. The decay of the capitalist civilization brooks no delay...
...wide spectrum of electromagnetic waves-from the very short, very rapid cosmic rays (.000,000,000,004 cm.)* to the comparatively long, slow radio waves (2,500,000 cm.)†only a small section is perceptible to unaided human senses. That section contains light rays and heat rays, and the intermediate infra-red rays which are neither light nor heat, yet are of the nature of both. Scientists are gradually learning how to put the infra-red rays to work. Doctors use them to create artificial fevers. Practical physicists used them otherwise last week...
Interference with shortselling in New York alone might lead to a rapid growth of some interior market. But last week's developments included a resolution against shortselling passed by the Chicago City Council and given to the Governer's Revenue Committee. There was also an acceleration of agitation in Federal Government circles...