Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season's record, means nothing as the team has won its only two starts since the time this year, playing a fast-cutting, heads-up game under the new Cowles system. Watch the Thomas-Dingle-Maeleod passwork...
...astray because still higher flood stages were actually being recorded at Cairo and below. Fingers were pointed at Dayton, 50 miles above Cincinnati, which, after the disastrous flood of 1913 in the Miami Valley, spent $30,000,000 building five reservoirs to impound headwaters and release them only as fast as the streams could carry them away. Result : Dayton had no flood this year...
...small sail on a 15-ft. mast. Today it is a sporty, front -steering ice-racing machine with 75-ft. sail area, manageable by a girl, thrilling enough for a man, inexpensive (150-$250). light enough (125 Ib.) to be disassembled and hauled about by auto. While not so fast as such legendary performances as Kittie's 1¼ miles at 107 m.p.h. at Red Bank in 1885 or Haze's reputed two miles on the Hudson at 120 m.p.h., a skeeter, like any well-designed ice boat, can attain a speed almost twice the velocity...
...smart, got ahead fast, was soon doing a brokerage business on the side. When he met Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon...
...casual prostitute. Her good-by present was the syphilis that killed him. By now even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease was growing on him fast he would not go to the hospital, lived alone in a native hut, drank more & more. For siding with the natives against government officials he was tried, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. But before the sentence could be carried out, death took Gauguin...