Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascists' great superiority in arms and planes is not wholly responsible for their rapid advance. They have met comparatively little resistance. On March 9 they struck on a weak front, a front which for the most part had been quiet for a year and a half, at a time when the international brigade was resting after the Teruel offensive...
...creation of an active Yacht Club for Harvard undergraduates is the fulfillment of a long need. The growth of college sailing in the past few years has been rapid, and although it was the Big Three that started intercollegiate racing many years ago, the Crimson has been left far behind by Yale and Brown with their small fleets and M.I.T. with its Pavilion and close to forty boats. Those who attend tonight's meeting will form the nucleus of a group that is setting out to rectify this situation...
...second-hand dinghies will be bought by the group itself, and the problem of where and when to sail them will be worked out as experience is gained in the running of the organization. It is all on an experimental basis, but the interest already shown gives promise of rapid growth. The increased competition and increased chance for sailing are certain to improve the quality of Harvard's teams; and the domination of this sport by Tech may be nearing...
Showing that Britain has a more tolerant attitude toward ESP than elsewhere Murphy thinks that the rapid growth of spiritualism as a cult in America impaired rather than assisted the spread of systematic scientific inquiry...
...overwhelming at first. Indeed, when 15 out of 123 Winthrop House men signified their interest in the project, they represented a larger percentage than can be hoped for in all the Houses. Yet the plan offers intelligent audiences of Cambridge and Boston social clubs, and the possibility of rapid promotion to the Varsity debating team; under such a stimulus this lost art should undergo a renaissance...