Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington last week officials testily told correspondents off the record that Mr. Bedaux's preliminary cablegrams from Europe have packed all the punch to be expected from a self-made man who has risen so far and so fast. The Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke...
...Said Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the potent House Appropriations Committee last week: "I do not think there is any question but that the insiders in Wall Street brought on the present situation in an attempt to embarrass the Roosevelt administration." *Fast on its feet for once, the New York Stock Exchange month ago began a study of daily average short sales in A.T. & T., General Motors, S.O.N.J., New York Central. U. S. steel, last week announced that so far they were only 22.7% of the total...
...Stock Exchange installed a high-speed ticker service of N. Y. Quotation Co. The new tickers printed 500 characters a minute instead of the 300 characters of earlier machines. To the despair and confusion of brokers and speculators, however, tickers still run far behind the market whenever trading waxes fast & furious. Last week, for example, the ticker was several minutes late on four days. One mad day fortnight ago it fell 22 minutes behind, leaving traders groping in a mist of uncertainty. Last week the Stock Exchange fathered a new scheme to help keep traders up-to-the-minute...
Well timed passes were responsible for most of Dartmouth's gains, while two netted touchdowns. In the first period Al Ley, right end, caught a 25 yard pass from left half-back, Hal Webster, to score the first six points. Jim Weaver, fast right half-back for Dartmouth scored the other two goals, the first when he intercepted a Harvard pass, ran 90 yards to score, and the other on a pass...
...Deacons outplayed the Elephants throughout the feature encounter. The fast charging Kirkland ends, John Wood and Bob Snyder, completely disrupted the Eliot offense, while Wiley Mayne, Dick Wills, and Jack McClure ripped through large holes in the Elephants' defense. The lone score of the tilt came in the first period on a long pass from Wills to McClure with the latter running 30-yards to the pay territory. Wills kicked the point...