Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...locals from President Roland Jay Thomas and Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, proclaiming a set of "principles of responsibility." This noteworthy document was at once a confession of past sins and a command to the membership to sin no more by sit-downs, slowdowns, stay-ins, rash walkouts. It was also a promise that motor-makers with unionized plants can finish their booming 1940 season without a repetition of the rash, costly Chrysler shutdown (TIME, Dec. 4). Excerpts...
Aeroembolism. After rapid ascent to high altitudes a pilot may be attacked by sickness similar to the dread staggers, bends, or caisson disease of divers. Cause of "aeroembolism" is formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and spinal fluid. Symptoms are neuritis, joint pains, a heavy red rash, burning and stabbing pain in the lungs, a weird tingling "like a small compact colony of ants rushing madly over the surface of the body." For aeroembolism, only thing to do is come down in a hurry...
Raczynski: rash...
...editorial which appeared last Friday in which the House Masters were accused of "abusing their rights of selection . . . for the purposes of discrimination" and "rash actions" is grossly unfair...
...college student. What is more, such suggestions in the recent Council Report as the compulsory admittance of Dean's List men and the barring of almost all probation men may still allow for much unfairness in selection. But, undesirable as the establishment of fixed rules may be, the rash actions of the House Masters, if continued, will inevitably necessitate steps of this nature...