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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eugene Gallatin was one of the first men in the U. S. to own five automobiles. Today he has none. "So many people have cars," he explained last week, "and they have gone so far and so fast that the whole business has been rather run into the ground." Eugene Gallatin's interest in art is older than his interest in automobiles as a sport. Aubrey Beardsley and Whistler were his first passions. He collected, studied, and finally wrote a sheaf of books on the elegant Jimmy, but gradually his taste grew more & more advanced, more & more abstract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abstract Descendant | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...worker who was watching over his mother's class of 25 youngsters. He heard a loud noise. Plaster started falling. He thought for a split second of the window. Then two or three of the children started running toward him. He herded them out into the open fast. Out in the schoolyard, Don Nelson saw the ground littered with bodies. Two men ran up to him and they crawled back into the ruins together. A heavy bookcase had formed a cave from under which ten pale children scampered. "There was so much confusion," said Don Nelson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Greatest Blessings | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Passion Play, now performed by 300 pious members of the Community. He was sure that this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke and 30 angels and 250 onlookers nervously watched Mr. Peacy precariously gyrate heavenward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Illinois Oberammergau | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...Runner Glenn Cunningham: the Columbian Mile, feature race of the Knights of Columbus Track Meet, for the fifth consecutive year; in Manhattan. Last major race of the board-track season, the Columbian Mile is often the most remarkable. In 1934, Cunningham won it in the amazingly fast time of 4:08.4, a world's record (indoors). In 1936, when all the entrants were too cautious to set the pace, he won in the ridiculously slow time of 4:46.8. Last week, the race upheld its tradition. Cunningham, climaxing a season in which he has won five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...also in the Detroit office but the powerhouse there was Jerry McCarthy, whose clientele included a good representation in the Detroit Tigers. Last month SEC summoned Manager Mickey Cochrane to describe how he bought 1,000 shares of Tack, but the famed catcher had evidently found the game too fast to follow. Asked where he had been in November 1935, he said he thought he had been in Wyoming but that might have been in October. "I travel around so much I don't know where I am half the time," he apologized. "I am here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Customers on Tack | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

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