Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised French costs that many a French exporter found himself obliged to quote to overseas clients prices in devalued francs which work out in dollars or pounds about the same as before devaluation. Thus, especially in French wholesale markets, the more or less illusory "benefits of devaluation" are fading fast, and plenty of evidence had piled up in Paris that much of what Socialist Premier Blum has been doing is to attempt a series of risky experiments, however noble. Upon that record, could Finance Minister Auriol succeed in floating 104 billions in bonds? From the box of absent Speaker Edouard...
Skiing near Montpelier, Vt., Harvard's President James Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan as "contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government" and "dangerous in the extreme...
Perhaps it is because the action is not fast enough for melodrama, and because there is a hint of anticlimax in the ending. It gradually gathers speed, works up to its climax, and then when the point is made an extra and somewhat irrelevant scene is added by way of explanation...
...real start in an English provincial repertory company. She had lovely legs, but she was not beautiful: she had what the director called an india-rubber face, capable of expressing any emotion at will. In short, Julia was a natural. She was working hard in the repertory company, learning fast, when she fell in love with Michael, a member of the same company. Michael was dazzlingly handsome but not much of a ladies' man, and not a very good actor except in certain limited parts. He was pleased with Julia's adoration, accepted as much...
...surprise victory, David Emerson '38 won the annual Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill Championship yesterday on the Wildcat, boosting the ski team to second place in team standings. Dartmouth took the team prize from a strong field of 70 competitors. Dry snow made the precipitous course fast in spite of a warm...