Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find that what is going on in the Far East is a war, he would be obliged to apply to it the provisions of the rickety Neutrality Act. Therefore, in explaining to the press why all 7,780 Americans in China had been warned to get out as fast as possible or stay at their own risk, he described the Sino-Japanese situation not as a war, but as an awful mess. As to applying the Neutrality Act, the President was still on a 24-hour basis...
...would cut 100 mi. from the Baffin Bay-Barrow Strait passage, save 400 miles if the still untraversed Fury and Hecla Strait were navigable. In 1858, after his fifth attempt, Captain Leopold McClintock claimed that he "steamed through the clear water of Bellot Strait this morning and made fast to the ice across its western outlet." Though many small trade-ships may have used its 30 tortuous miles in the past 80 years, on the record it has remained uncharted, impassable...
...Thompson Race history was Pilot Rudy A. Kling in a mosquito-nosed, Menasco-motored Folkerts monoplane which just nosed out Earl Ortman's Keith Rider at an average of 256.9 m.p.h. This was seven miles slower than Michel Detroyat's world record winning time last year, but fast enough to take the $9,000 first-prize money. A wiry garage mechanic and veteran racer who designs his own planes, 29-year-old Rudy Kling lives in Lemont, Ill., had already walked off with the $4,500 first prize in the Greve Trophy race. Grinned he: "I just gunned...
...charges hinged upon an alleged statement by J. N. Barde admitting part of them. But that non-Californian resident refused to attend the trial, and the defense produced a statement by him that the Fleishhacker deal was in entire good faith. Balance of the defense, presided over by famed & fast-thinking Lawyer John Francis Neylan, longtime Hearst adviser, was based principally on the claim that Herbert Fleishhacker never imposed a repayment condition upon any of the loans made to the Bardes, that he had never received any secret emoluments under the guise of salary or dividends. In his brief period...
...Californi," got himself elected President of Nicaragua, was involved in a fight with ten countries, became No. i U. S. soldier of fortune, alternately a hero, a joke and a villain. Told this week in The Filibuster, his story fills 350 large pages with an adventure story as absorbing, fast-moving and as incredible as any so far dug out of that period of sleazy brigandage below the Rio Grande...