Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just a word of appreciation for the publication of Mrs. Louise Redfield Peattie's appeal [to TIME subscribers to send their copies, after reading them, to Army camps] which has had a grand and rapid response here at Fort Dix. The soldiers appreciate especially the fact that they are getting current editions...
...optimism liked to think that the R.A.F.'s high bag of night attackers may have caused the Germans to take pause. In May the British claimed 156 German night raiders, compared to 90 in April, 47 in March, 15 each in February and January. But even this rapid progression was probably not enough in itself to deter the Germans, for the bag never ran higher than about 10% of attacking planes, and that only on a few fair moonlit nights...
...choose between life and death. The Marshal and the Government have chosen life." When it was over it seemed apparent that Admiral Darlan had put more weight on the word "sovereignty" than it could possibly bear. If it was his intention to conceal France's rapid motion toward de facto Axis partnership and full-fledged fascism, the mounting evidence made it impossible. For it remained clear last week that Germany, far from being "alone," was enjoying a good part of France's agricultural and industrial output and the military use of French-controlled territory in Syria and Morocco...
...period of social transition ... a period characterized . . . by an unusually rapid rate of change of the most important economic, social, political and cultural institutions of society. . . What is occurring in this transition is a drive for social dominance, for power and privilege, for the position of ruling class, by the social group or class of the managers...
...back complications ensued. Not having bridges to cope with on Lake Waban, the coxswainess was terrified to see the Anderson structure approaching at a rapid speed, broke her rudder in avoiding it. Assistance was plentiful and the damage was soon remedied. Further confusion resulted when an eight and a single, neither one intent on their own rowing, side-swiped each other in the shadow of the bridge and the boat continued merrily...