Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early season dopesters found the Crimson rife with backfield talent but weak in the line. The B.U. contest, however, brought a rapid revision of estimates, and Harlow is now working to secure greater depth in his backfield...
...scientist-darling of Communist theologians is Soviet Academician Trofim Denisovich Lysenko. Lysenko's basic idea seems to be that living forms (like nations) need to be shaken up by a kind of genetic revolution. Thus shaken, a tomato or wheat plant is capable of very rapid development. In proving this thesis, Lysenko is short on controlled experimentation and long on thundering Marxist phrases like "The Liquidation of the Conservatism of the Nature of Organisms" (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). Many non-Communist geneticists consider him a politically motivated fraud...
...sight of State Street's prospering bankers and brokers filled him with determined envy. In rapid order, John acquired a pushcart, a store, then the building of which the store was a part. At 26, he was operating a wholesale fruit business and a swank new shop, dealing in imported delicacies. The shop was near the Boston Public Library. Thereafter, John spent all his spare time in the library, poring over volumes on real-estate law and economics...
Another champion was acting the part last week, after a slow start. Rapid Robert Feller won No. 17 for the season, as many as any American League pitcher. Cleveland Indian Owner Bill Veeck (rhymes with neck) celebrated the occasion by giving Feller a $40,000 bonus. Added to his regular salary, this will bring 28-year-old Bobby Feller's 1947 pitching earnings well over $80,000-the highest Babe Ruth ever made in one year...
Nearly all the victims had been operated on for disorders of the uterus, ovaries, etc. (two had had stomach operations). In each case the operation had seemed successful. But within 24 hours, every one of the patients had shown the same fatal symptoms: coma, rapid loss of reflexes, and what looked like severe scorching of the tongue. After the 15th death, Head Doctor Raymond Denis uneasily consulted a Paris toxicologist. The expert put Dr. Denis' vague horror into words: "There is a criminal in your service...