Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these closed schools clearly paid more attention than most to the kind of private instruction for troubled students which the University has recently undertaken officially. Such "legitimate" tutoring has been quite rightly taken over by the University, but consequently there is no room left for outside agencies. The sudden demise of the second cram parlor, which rather specialized in the spreading of canned information, shows that the less successful schools are already falling by the wayside. This may well be an indication that the barometer is falling around the more notorious rivals...
Coming as it did at a time when most of Harvard was dazed by the sudden ending of the tenure of ten popular assistant professors, Professor Burbank's resignation last spring as chairman of the Economics department lent itself too easily to interpretation as a protest against the Administration's tenure policy. It is now clear as Professor Burbank says, that this was "an unjustified assumption." Professor Burbank, besides carrying one of the heaviest teaching loads in his department, has been the able administrator not only of the department but of its Board of Tutors and its large introductory course...
Hicks will give reasons for his sudden split with the party in an article to be published in this week's New Republic...
...most of Great Britain, since war broke out, no news has been bad news. For months the country had been preparing itself for a sudden, overwhelming, spectacular shock. And when war came, nothing seemed to happen: darkness, silence, expectancy, laconic communiques. "What kind of war is this?" asked impatient Lord Beaverbrook in his Evening Standard. Was anything ever going to happen? Were Britain and France in it up to their necks, or had they just put a toe in to see how cold it was? Were they stalling until Poland was beaten to accept the expected German peace offer...
Reason for the sudden change: the advent of World War II changed the minds of Marion's customers in the latent coal-copper-iron business. They wanted shovels -wanted them fast. In ten days Marion got $1,000,000 worth of orders (one-sixth of a normal year's business...