Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poly Tom Pendergast, Democratic Boss of Kansas City, was in Manhattan having his heart ailment treated by a specialist. Meanwhile he was, as usual, the prime issue when Missouri held its primaries. On an anti-Pendergast platform William Hirth, longtime head of the Missouri Farmers' Association, ran hard & fast after the Democratic nomination for Governor, but not hard & fast enough to prevent Boss Pendergast's man. Major Lloyd Crow Stark of Louisiana. Mo. from winning, 3-to-1. Even the fact that Major Stark, a famed nurseryman whose family originated "Stark's Delicious" apple, had never before...
...nucleus it either bounces off, transforming the atom instantly into another element, or is captured, producing a swollen, unstable atom which spits out the awkward excess for seconds, hours, sometimes days in the form of radiation or particles. Dr. Fermi found that slow neutrons were more easily captured than fast ones, worked out the equation for the slowing effect of hydrogen nuclei. Since the hydrogen atom, having only one outside electron, consists almost entirely of nucleus, it is excellent for braking fast neutrons, and substances rich in hydrogen such as water, paraffin and oil are commonly used for this purpose...
...Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif...
...reason it gains sensibility. Author Richard Sherman, adapting in collaboration with Howard Ellis Smith, retained the same care with topical allusion that set his story above the average standard in the Saturday Evening Post. Excellent are the carefully dated gowns, furniture, and cliches ("You're the Berries," "Think Fast, Captain Flagg," "They Just Dropped In and Took The Place Over") ; the stock-shots of outstanding news events, including Manhattan's welcome to Lindbergh; the songs and even the mental attitudes of the periods dealt with. Carpers will find a few inaccuracies: "This is the Voice of Experience...
Trailing the five leaders is Wurlitzer Grand Piano Co., which also makes organs. Story & Clark Co. is growing fast under Lothrop Perkins Bull, 35, smart, aggressive and present president of potent National Piano Manufacturers Association. A lawyer until two years ago, Pianoman Bull got into piano making by marrying a Story...