Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the gaminess is contributed by a jaded crew of idlers called the Galère, who assemble in Paris, London. Venice and New York, indulge in easy, intermittent love affairs, drive fast cars, make scandals for the tabloids by being interviewed in crowded beds, and generally delight in their reputations for wickedness. A pale, pretty English War widow, Bianca does not really belong with them. She observes them first with detached interest, later plays their game with ironic humor, tries unsuccessfully to prevent their irresponsibility from climaxing in tragedy...
...Fall River Line was bought by Old Colony R. R., which was absorbed 18 years later by the New Haven. Fast and frequent trains were putting a damper on water traffic; but, looked at another way, water traffic was taking some business from the railroad. The New Haven tried to solve both problems by acquiring as many shipping lines on the Sound as it could. These moves were fought tooth & nail by competitors and the Interstate Commerce Commission was appealed to time & again to pry the New Haven loose from its subsidiary, New England Steamship Co. In recent years these...
...Brown trains strictly the year long, made the Cambridge varsity team his freshman year. He is "reading" (majoring in) English and History at Peterhouse, writes sport for various Cambridge undergraduate papers. Speediest Briton at every distance from 100 yds. to a half mile, he rarely strains to see how fast he can run. Last year he was barely beaten by Archie Williams in the 400-metre race at the Olympics, where he anchored Great Britain's victorious 1,600-metre relay team. Asked before the Princeton-Cornell meet whether he planned to run against the clock or the pack...
...shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator cannot be greater than 14 ft. per sec. without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which...
...MAKING or A HERO-Nicholas Ostrovski-Dutton ($2.50). Fast-moving autobiographical novel about a Red cavalryman in the Russian civil war; the author dictated the story while blind and paralyzed, died soon after...