Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years or so, and grain and grain products have fallen off 22% in approximately the same period. On the other hand our sugar imports have increased 111% and imports of fruit, nuts and vegetables have increased 367% over what they were 25 years ago. We are fast tending to become a food importing country. There is every indication that to the next generation the problem of an export, surplus will be a ridiculous absurdity, and that their great outcry will be to keep down the high cost of agricultural products...
...names, names, names. The more local names the local editor can cram into his columns, the more money he makes. The well known sources of this raw material are "social functions," "church and club activities," departures from and returns to town, etc. Every local editor draws upon them as fast as typewriters...
...interests of charities and Congregational Church activities. Mr. Lawson, like many Scandinavians, was deeply religious?in this differing from Mr. Munsey, who was frankly worldly. But a bank cannot run a newspaper, and Banker Mitchell had no intention of doing so. Bids came in fast. Financial groups wanted to turn a penny in resale of stock to the public. Political groups, barely disguised, made paper bids. William R. Hearst, it is believed, made suggestions. It was the business duty of the bank as trustee to get all the money it could. It was the public duty of the bank...
...York has been building too fast. The boom is inflated. Rents are coming down. A severe and slow panic impends"?such was the concurrent drift of remarks made a fortnight ago by Walter Stabler, Comptroller of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., and of a wise old Manhattan banker, Clarence H. Kelsey, who has seen all the "hard times" in 40 years. They added that they would lend no more money for New York City building...
...University squad, which has showed potential power in individual play during the first two games, displayed a finished style of team play against the McGill skaters. The game was fast and a succession of brilliant dashes and tangled mix-ups in front of the respective cages kept the large crowd on their feet...