Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unfair to women! On p. 33 of your issue of Sept. 28, you say that a woman cannot run as fast as a man because of the shape of her pelvis. Is this news? If you are going to state a fact as old as humanity you might at least state it without bias. I refer you to any competent medical authority for information as to what would happen to humanity if the female pelvis were of the same form as the male. The ways of the Creator are not the piddling ways of TIME...
...awakened and told that Le Cartel had reunited itself and now thought that it knew what it wanted as a unit. Apparently M. Herriot had worked fast and got the Socialists back into line. It remained to be seen at what cost. Unfortunately it shortly became apparent that the cost meant inserting the "capital levy" in the bill under the guise of a "mortgage-secured tax." For 24 consecutive hours M. Painlevé occupied himself with redrafting his measure, largely to suit M. Blum. Said the harassed Premier, "I yield. But only to Le Cartel...
Cornell's uncertain team, held scoreless in the first half, worked up steam slowly like an old locomotive on a slippery grade until it went fast enough to beat Canissius...
...editors writes concerning the first extra, an eight-page edition containing a full report of the winter athletic games: "The copy was written in the gymnasium as the games progressed and was carried to the office by half a dozen messenger boys. It was put in type as fast as received. The last event was the tug of war, lasting several minutes. Before this was finished a full report of all preceding events was set up. The line "The tug-of-war was won by '8--was already in type. The winning class was signalled across the Yard...
...asleep. It is given as proof that a Terre Haute mechanic with only the most rudimentary education has, by clamping radio phones to his ears, learned the binomial theorem, select passages from American history, some irregular French verbs, and yards upon yards of poetry all while he was fast asleep...