Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike virus spread fast. Along the Gulf, at Port Arthur, Houston. Mobile and New Orleans, rank & file groups started minor strikes. On the Atlantic, at Boston, Poughkeepsie, Providence there were similar troubles. In Baltimore, 600 seamen walked out. In Philadelphia, 16 ships were tied up. Generally, however, Atlantic maritime workers looked to New York Harbor for guidance. There the man who is nominally head of all U. S. longshore men, President Joseph P. Ryan, jockeyed with the man who would like to be the Harry Bridges of the Atlantic, Seaman Joseph Curran...
...rush food and supplies enabling the Government to nip floods and famines which have cursed China down the centuries. In times past Chinese have died not by the thousands but by the hundreds of thousands simply because their Government had no means to ship food over trackless wastes fast enough to let a province with a bumper crop feed a starving province...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...
...Navy game, the Virginia squad got off to a fast start when Pete Nistad, who specializes in lefthanded forward passing, completed two long tosses for scores in the first half. Later the Middles' power plays began functioning, and Navy pulled the game out of the fire in the last period...
Boats some of the most beautiful girls in town, to wit: "the eight dancing debutantes," who came directly to Boston from a year at the Hollywood in New York. Coley Worth's Orchestra with Hal Cutler, a fast moving review and a delightfully intimate atmosphere explainwhy the Blue Room has always been a favorite nocturnal rendezvous for Harvard...