Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the 400 federal officers have mowed down the public enemies during the past few months is a striking illustration of the value of a group of men trained in the necessary elements of crime detection, chosen for service by an impartial commission, and stimulated by the prospects of rapid promotion and increases in pay. Yet any reform in the police agencies must be accompanied by similar reformation of the practices of the criminal prosecutor. This officer has practically sovereign, discretionary power in determining which of the captured criminals shall be prosecuted and how the prosecution shall be managed...
...Because he was tired of punching with his fists in pictures. Cagney suggested a variation to Director Ray Enright. In The St. Louis Kid he wears bandages on his hands, butts his way through brawls with his head. In other respects, the picture is standard Cagney entertainment, a rapid, realistic fantasy about a truck-driver who wants a quiet weekend in the country. Best shot: Cagney being welcomed into a village jail by a warden who loves company...
...Rapid investigation followed the loss of the bust and the CRIMSON's reporters eventually located the missing article in the Cambridge shop where it was being rebronzed...
...West to show John Harvard how to play football will enter the game today with odds considerably shortened before the two elevens line up for the opening kickoff. Quotes last night set the figures at 3-2 for the Crusaders to whip the Crimson forces, which represents a rapid change in sentiment for the Harvard lads...
...University. The graduate school has recognized the advantages of foreign study and though it still insists on making an imperious distinction on the merit of foreign courses it seems to be moving in the direction of full recognition of the equality of European study with that at Harvard. Rapid adoption of the plan for undergraduate study seems to wait only upon the overcoming of customary Cambridge inertia...