Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief about that will occur to many, however, will concern the practicability of a program which has sprung, so to speak, fully armed from the head of Dr. Hutchins. The sceptic can reasonably be allowed his questions as to the maturity of this sudden revival of medieval scholasticism, and raised eyebrows must be expected at such parts of the curriculum as the public dissection of an animal, whose modern practice might be slightly straining a tradition. But Harvard should vigilantly watch this departure in education in this small laboratory and be ready to use anything practical which may come...
...never has a hurricane struck a region so thickly populated and so unprepared. Inattentive to weather reports, many a landsman had his first intimation that the wind and rain were more than an equinoctial storm, when he had a "funny feeling'' in his ears-the effect of sudden low pressure, like that of going up in an elevator...
...Dominion of the Union of South Africa and, during the long-brewing international crises between Czechoslovakia and Germany, cagey Premier James Barry Munnick Hertzog has refused to commit himself for or against the Nazis. But last week, as events in Europe rolled toward war, the Premier indulged in a sudden burst of loyalty to the Mother Country, personally took to the Assembly floor to oppose a pro-Nazi deputy's motion that South Africa refuse to support Britain if war comes. 'T am still very confident that there will be no war," said the Premier. "No country...
They conservatively do not doubt the new Russia's sudden literacy but attribute these figures to the consolidation of numerous libraries under one system of administration, involving a great deal of duplication...
Jews of high standing in Italy, and there are many, were given sudden hope last week by an unexpected passage in Il Duce's speech at Trieste, most of which was devoted to possibilities of war (see p. 15). Although declaring that "World Jewry, during sixteen years, has been an irreconcilable enemy of Fascism," Premier Mussolini added, "Jews of Italian citizenship, however, possessing indisputable military and civic merits toward Italy and the Regime, will find understanding and justice! As for the other Jews, a policy of separation will be followed. In the end the world, perhaps, will be surprised...