Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commons, after hearing how upsurging new jobs are going to be provided in the Depressed Areas by Rearmament, rushed through vote after vote last week the enabling bill under which His Majesty's Government are going to borrow ?400,000,000 ($2,000,000,000) for Rearmament. In rapid succession Crown ministers representing the fighting services asked such sums as $410,000,000 for the Army, $525,000,000 for the Navy and spoke casually of setting up "14 new munitions factories." Meanwhile the first long-expected "returning prosperity strike" in the Rearmament industry had suddenly immobilized half...
...Cleveland since September 1934, when Torso No. 1, also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered, only two of them identified -were found in the desolate Kingsbury Run section, through which Cleveland's rapid transit line speeds prosperous Clevelanders to swank Shaker Heights. At last week's end, Cleveland police admitted they were as hopelessly without clues to Cleveland's butcher as they were three years...
...catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
With preparations continuing at a rapid rate for the H-Y-P Conference on Public Affairs to be held in Cambridge on the 26th and 27th of this month, the choice of speakers for the opening luncheon and the main banquet was determined yesterday...
Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton, declared: "In this era of such rapid extension of the functions of the state throughout the civilized world, of times with little pause to consider all the circumstances, conferences organized along the principles of this one are of unique value. The method by which controversial matters are approached and disposed of is a lesson to those who despair of democracy...