Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter is that only 14% of the people of British India have the vote.* The entire country is so politically preadolescent that to be moving in India toward heeding the voice of the people or letting them decide anything at all is to move, for the Orient, fast. The Chinese people have no effective suffrage and in Japan masterful forces of Dictatorship in the name of the Emperor have made Japanese elections a mockery today. The new written Constitution of India is hundreds of years behind the unwritten Constitution of the United Kingdom which features at the same time Democracy...
Around the track, Princeton authorities thoughtfully posted announcers to tell the runners how fast they were going. This was to make it easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third...
...among the delights of the play is the program. If you haven't already been won over, go to the show for the sake of the program, which you can't very well get otherwise. It was written by a clever man whose wit was just a bit too fast for him. A sample: "as fast on the verbal comeback as a handball...
...empurpled and highflown Latin oration about Democracy being at the crossroads in Madrid was completely stultified by Orator Alvarez del Vayo himself when he announced that last week the Madrid Cabinet was not going to ask any action of the League Assembly. "The era of national wars is fast disappearing!" cried the Spaniard in his best passage. "Just as in the 16th Century in Europe men took sides and fought in the name of two religious ideals, Catholicism and Protestantism, so today, it would appear, men are divided by two political ideals, democracy and oppression. . . . The blood-stained soil...
...throwing screwballs. In 1928, he was throwing the screwball for the Giants. In the All-Star game of 1934, he used it to strike out Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons and Cronin, the five best batters in the American League, in succession. Mixed with a sidearm curve and a fast ball, it is still his specialty. The Hubbell screwball, according to batters who have missed it, not only dips sharply but also slows down as it arrives at the plate...