Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lest the miracle be doubted, the Berlin Acht Uhr Abenblatt published photographs showing Edward of Wales at every state of his triumphant "surprise visit" to Berlin. The paper sold fast on the boulevards, and few readers turned to the last sentence of the story on an inside page which read: "April Fool...
...close of a concert season is an emotional time for the faithful who have listened all winter. When the fast note has fallen away, shouts rise above the handclapping. The conductor becomes an object of overt adoration, especially if he has won the heart of his audience only recently. So it was last week in Carnegie Hall, at the end of Guest Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler's third season with the New York Philharmonic. In 1925 he first came as guest conductor, a studious young man from Berlin and Vienna who had pleased without enchanting. Last year...
...first half was evenly played, the University scoring only two goals. The first score was made by Francis Rouillard '23 captain of the 1923 team, when he kicked the ball into his own goal in a hot scrimmage. The second marker was also made from scrimmage after a fast triple pass by C. O. Simpson '27 when both of the opposing defense men were drawn out of position...
...fourth consecutive time in as many races, Crew X led its opponents, Crews Y and Z, in a one and seven-eighths miles downstream race in the basin yesterday. The time made by the winning crew was unusually fast for this early stage in the oarsmen's development...
...defeated Shantung soldiers and the victorious Nationalist troops fighting sporadically in the Chinese city of Shanghai, recently captured (TIME, March 28) by the Nationalists. ¶ Routed Shantung troops pleaded and begged to be taken into the international city, and they were allowed this refuge by the great powers as fast as they could be disarmed. The Japanese especially welcomed these defeated troops and put some 2,000 on a Japanese transport, late in the week, for transport back to Shantung where they belong. ¶ Looting by individual soldiers of both factions in the Chinese city went on unchecked...