Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That means fast work in Washington...
...excited no particular awe. Next season he developed into an able quarterback, moved the year following to halfback, his regular position. He runs with a long bounding stride far better adapted to open field gains than line-plunging. He is not, as some have declared, an extraordinary sprinter. Though fast, he eludes tacklers rather by the perfect rhythm of his running?the hip-action by which he dodges without losing speed...
...with covered heads and unshod feet in their humiliation. Children will play with apples spiked with cloves; men will sniff snuff; women will surreptitiously hold vials of heart-strengthening aromatics to noses. Behind screens, separated from the men, will sit the women of orthodox congregations. After their day of fast they must go home to cook the evening meal. (In synagogues of modified orthodoxy women are not screened off; in reformed temples families sit together...
...plane moved so fast that it seemed foolish to suppose that the solemn and magnificent music bore any relation to its maneuvers. Suddenly it banked, began to plunge down. An officer on Mitchell Field watched it descend. This machine, a 1,400 horsepower Curtiss racer, with a wingspan of only 22 feet, had been sent up for its first official speed test. Its manufacturers believed that it could travel 255 miles an hour. In it Lieut. Alford J. Williams had on an ancient shirt, greased with the smuts of innumerable flights ? a good luck shirt. If he had good...
...took the course, then landed. He had reached a speed of 302.3 miles an hour. The record, because it was made from a gliding drop, is not allowed in the International Competition, but it stands as official in the U. S. No human being has ever before traveled as fast as Lieut. Williams...