Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed at Progressive Education's rapid spread, a handful of educational traditionalists, including Professor Bagley, last February organized a group called the Essentialists, issued a manifesto. Their indictment : the new movement has made U. S. education "effeminate," has made U. S. children inferior spellers and readers. Their proposal: more attention to discipline, systematic work, "essentials" (such as the 3 Rs). This platform raised a cheer here and there, but the Essentialists have not yet slowed up the Progressive marcb...
More than 75% of Chicago's passenger traffic is handled by a vast system of street cars and busses. Chief rapid transit the city proper has is furnished by its far-flung 41-year-old elevated railway system, 14 lines that creep and clang counterclockwise around the "Loop" encircling the 7 by 6-block financial and mercantile district before heading back toward the city's outskirts. Inside the "Loop," the property values are as high as the 45-story Field Building; outside they fall off just as steeply...
...underlying Chicago's 25 feet of largely-filled in elevation above Lake Michigan, its two lines will lead from existing "L" trackage on the North Side, shortcutting some trains into the "Loop" from outlying areas with time savings of as much as 16 to 20 minutes, and bringing rapid transit for the first time to the busy Milwaukee Avenue industrial district. In the "Loop" itself the lines will run under Dearborn and State Streets, a block apart, with communicating passenger tunnels connecting their continuous platforms at seven consecutive "Loop" streets. Effect of the system when promised unification of Chicago...
...patient's ribs. Such mutilation is unnecessary, said Dr. Claire LeRoy Straith of Detroit, for cartilage leftovers from, surgical operations and even ribs removed at autopsy can be used in plastic surgery. Since cartilage is nourished by lymph instead of blood it does not undergo extensive or rapid degeneration. And it does not need to be ''matched'' to individuals. Spare ribs should be stored on ice, said Dr. Straith...
...spite of the grave social dilemmas they point to-the threat of fascism, war. increasing nationalism, moral confusion-the contributors to America Now are optimistic about the future. They see science, rapid communication, the "prophylaxis of ideas" working for international good will faster than the forces of reaction can work against it. If, they suggest, reactionaries persist in running counter to the people's deep-seated desire for progress and peace, their newspapers will go unread, their movies will be shunned, their broadcasts unheard, their advertising ignored and, if they resort finally to force, their necks broken. Though pessimists...