Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week John Thomas Mclntyre made Pete's subsequent adventures the basis of a fast moving, 504-page novel that won first place as the U. S. contender in an elaborate contest called the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition. Jointly sponsored by the Literary Guild, Warner Bros., Farrar & Rinehart and publishers in eleven countries, the All-Nations' prize is to be awarded after an international elimination contest. As U. S. contender, Author Mclntyre wins $4,000; if he wins the All-Nations' prize he gets $19,000. Steps Going Down is a lively and frequently amusing book...
...team shapes up now, the greatest weakness appears to be at the end positions with no lettermen returning due to Dubiel's downfall. Bob Daughters, who is coming up from the Freshmen, will be in the thick of the fight, but this Sophomore, though fast and a marvelous pass receiver, will probably need another year of seasoning before his defensive work comes up to par. Ben Smith is the other Freshman who will report on September 15, while Gibson Winter and Joe Kennedy, a pair of Juniors, are all applicants for the post. Unless some shift is made, however...
Vancouver is a boom city as civic-conscious as the U. S. cities across the border. Fed, like them, by lumber, mines, wheat and fish, mainland Vancouver has grown fast, while older snobbish Victoria on Vancouver Island across the Strait of Georgia has hugged its reputation as "a little bit of England on the shores of the Pacific." In 1885, when the Canadian Pacific Railway reached the coast, insular Victoria looked down on the brawling mill town of Gastown, named for a saloonkeeper, "Gassy Jack" Deighton. To the rage of Victoria's aristocrats, Canadian Pacific officials renamed Gastown Vancouver...
Canada's Alberta was last week a proving ground for a money experiment so fantastic as to baffle financial experts. On the theory that fast-moving money would bring Prosperity to his battered Province, Alberta's Premier William Aberhart last fortnight issued a scrip he called "prosperity certificates" (TIME, Aug. 10.) They had dated spaces on the reverse side for 104 tiny if stamps which must be bought and attached week-by-week to keep the money "fresh" (i. e., acceptable). Premier Aberhart had produced a "money" that was actually cheaper to spend than to save...
Having been pinched occasionally himself, Will Clayton set out in the 1920's to change this rule. His method was to do his own squeezing but to do it so often, so fast and so hard, that cotton men would rise in arms, force the Exchange to modify the rule. His operations are still referred to by those who got burned as nothing less than "fiendish." In the end he won his point, which was to have certain cities in the South designated as "delivery points" instead of the Port of New York alone. This made it easy...