Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting to note how fast Alabama boys skyrocket toward the top once they get away from the strenuous competition facing them here from thousands of other boys just as good. For instance, at least five of the nine Alabama boys composing the team at Alabama University when I was there (Class of '21) landed directly into Big League Baseball-Joe Sewell, Luke Sewell (still catching for Chicago White Sox), J. Riggs Stephenson, Lena Styles and Ike Boone...
Domestic honors came to Parker thick & fast. All in a few years he was made choir director and organist at Trinity Church in Boston, Battell Professor of Music at Yale and later dean of its music school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled...
...person drinking heavy water would be living only half as fast as a person drinking ordinary water. Who wants to live fast...
...bathing suit (see cut, p. 74), have included twice hopping the Atlantic (TIME, Sept. 14, 1936). Suddenly a thudding shiver ran through the plane as a wingtip sliced a treetop. Recalled Passenger W. T. Critchfield: "It sounded at first like a heavy truck running on gravel very fast. I looked at Saggio [a passenger across the aisle] and saw him still strapped in and then suddenly he was flying through...
...spotted by another TWA pilot, Capt. A. M. Wilkins, flying in from the west at 700 ft. ready to land as soon as Bohnet was down. Wilkins saw the silvery monoplane about three miles ahead and 200 ft. lower in level flight. To his surprise he overtook it fast. When only a mile behind, Wilkins cut his speed in order not to pass Bohnet. Simultaneously he noticed that Bohnet was having trouble. Though the air was clear, with no turbulence whatever, the plane ahead was wallowing. A wing would go down five degrees, then wobble back as the other wing...