Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Broadway, slow-motion newsreels revealed what had actually happened during those incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short ribs-a common...
...will for peace is her first guarantee, her strength is her supreme guarantee. No matter what the circumstances, France is fully capable of assuring the inviolability of her frontiers and her empire by herself." As if to add punch to the Premier's pronouncement came two moves in rapid succession. A five-billion franc defense loan, arranged by Finance Minister Paul Marchandeau, was oversubscribed a few hours after the lists opened to the public. An Air Ministry announcement revealed that France will begin her two-year plan of air force rearmament with the purchase of 100 fast Curtiss pursuit...
Eleven years ago Emil Marek lost a leg. This was not the hard luck it might have seemed, for it enabled him to collect $42,875 in insurance to finance an invention. The invention failed and not long afterward he fell ill and died. In fairly rapid succession, so did his 3-year-old daughter, Ingeborg; an aunt, Suzanne Loewenstein; and the family seamstress, Anna Kittenberger. In each case Mrs. Martha Marek was in close attendance. Last week in Vienna a horrified Nazi judge put an end to Frau Marek's ghastly livelihood...
...fired from the shoulder, on a bipod or tripod. It is ten pounds lighter and five inches shorter than the old army pattern Lewis gun, is gas-operated and air-cooled. There are two interchangeable barrels, so that if one overheats after a period of rapid firing, the other can be slipped in place in 20 seconds. With two men behind it, one feeding, the Bren can fire about 600 rounds a minute...
Where the responsibility should be placed for this decline in what was formerly the backbone of education is difficult to determine. Certainly some of it can be attributed to "the tempo of modern life" with its insistence on immediate, practical, marketable qualities. The rapid shift in the last decade from English as the most popular field, through Economics during the great Depression, and now to Government since we have lost faith in unhampered economic forces as a social panacea, illustrates the variable nature of students' desires...