Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first, but soon branched into telegraph, cable and wireless communications. The Caribbean master-communicator got the house of Morgan behind him and has lately be come the foremost U. S. promoter, inter nationally, of a foremost U. S. art (the fast message...
Charles Paddock, fast-stepper, one-time beau of Bebe Daniels, broke his own world's record for the null dash twice in two days at the Rice Relays in Houston. His last time...
Enter the solver of the murders, Philo Vance. He smokes expensive, heady cigarets. He drawls, diverts, digresses. He likes Chinese water colors and all manner of arty things. He drives his own Hispano-Suiza when he is thinking fast. He works with, but often annoys, the police. Finally, he gets the murderer by applying the theory that a painting is a greater work of skill than a photograph. Shrewd readers should be able to spot the murderer on page 330; average readers on page 339; stupid readers on page...
Although the severe cross-chop on the course made fast time impossible, the oarsmanship was smooth in all the boats and the high beat maintained without raggedness...
...crop been of such quality, the time so short. The professors give the credit to the length of the light period. The lights were turned on for the most part for 16 hours a day, but when the light exposure was doubled, the plant development proceeded four times as fast, and when the light was applied for 24 hours the growth was "astounding." The heat*rays of the lamps made these long exposures impractical in the past. Even filtering them through a water screen was unsuccessful, but Dr. Davis hit upon the idea of cooling the air in the chamber...