Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roberts may very well see action on Saturday, but his rapid promotion from Jayvee to potential Varsity first-string in the space of one week has been a little too sudden to justify his starting. The strain on a player so handled would be too great...
...with a plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht...
Finally, in the packjammed Stadium, 20,000 Catholics formed their ranks into a reproduction of a great monstrance (altar vessel to hold the sacred Host). Followed benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Hayes, which was preceded by a radio broadcast by the Pope, speaking in rapid, inaudible Latin and frequently fading out entirely. Later, Catholics learned that Pius XI had said...
With a perceptible air of dogged determination, Harold Nicolson writes of Morrow's financial work in connection with the mutualization of Equitable Life Assurance Society, the reorganization of New York City's Interborough Rapid Transit, municipal financing, giving the impression that such labors were equally tedious to biographer and hero. Morrow's career in France during the War and as Ambassador seems to interest Nicolson more. In Mexico Morrow ruthlessly broke diplomatic traditions, communicated with the State Department by telephone, buttonholed minor officials, made friends with President Calles, effectively neutralized Mexican hostility...
Besides the mire and dust of gravel paths there is a greater total expense to the university. Asphalt requires very little upkeep and makes snow removal infinitely cheaper and more rapid. The use of dangerous and unsightly narrow wooden walks in winter is unnecessary; the expensive storage and repair of these may be abandoned...