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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When President Roosevelt got down to work, there was a lot to do and only ten days to do it in. Next week, he announced, he would go to Charleston, board the fast cruiser Indianapolis and probably speed under forced draft all the way to Buenos Aires to make a speech at the opening session of the Pan-American Peace Conference. Meantime he saw his Cabinet, consulted Budget Director Bell, for a Budget has to be made up before Congress convenes on Jan. 5. To questions of newshawks about new Cabinet members, he answered by saying all that would have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Triumph | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...freight capacity with considerably shorter wheelbase, which makes driving and parking easier; 3) better load distribution, so that the front wheels carry as much weight as the rear wheels. Practically all truck makers have plumped for C. O. E. Profiting by the experience of automobile makers who rushed too fast into streamlining, most truck makers have adopted it only in modified form. Modern trucks move fast enough to make streamlining worth while. But it has one detriment-curved body corners cut down space within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Truck Show | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost $100 each, he is a thoroughbred race horse considered valueless by his former owner because he could not, or was too clever to, run fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Horse Show | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Finally, according to Lord Cottenham. ''with the relentless surge of a hurricane, the big car went. It neither leapt, shot, howled nor roared, as other cars are not inaccurately described as doing according to their kind. It just moved forward very fast indeed. At about 50, I changed to third. At about 70, I changed to top. . . . Thereafter, I did 93. . . . These are speedometer speeds, but the speedometer is one that satisfies Messrs. Rolls-Royce. . . . Farther on . . . I spoke a word of warning to my passengers and did a quick pull-up from 80 with both hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...result there will be no Junior Varsity team. Instead Coach Stubbs will carry a larger Varsity squad and the work will be more intense. An indication of this is shown by the hour's scrimmage which concluded the first session last Tuesday. On Thursday and yesterday the work was fast and hard--there is no let-up for anyone during the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 11/14/1936 | See Source »

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