Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the 1940 Olympics aboard the Queen Mary? The track must be lightning fast, thus enabling the contestants to dress like gentle-men-morning races in morning jackets, afternoon in frock coats and evening events in Tux or tails...
...defense planes and spare or training ships. Since offense is now considered the only real defense against a major air raid on a great metropolis like London, the duty of Britain's bombers under rough & ready Air Marshal Sir John Miles Steel is presumably to get aloft as fast as possible and be raining Death on enemy towns before London can suffer too great loss...
...subjects have been taught that the "Lifeline of Empire" runs through Suez. This shortest route to India must at all costs be dominated by Britain, so ran the popular dogma and so the British Admiralty has stiffly held. Today, however, with Italy triumphant and formidably facing Suez, London was fast telling itself last week that an alternative route to India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than...
...Sudden Death (Paramount) takes its title from the article by Joseph Chamberlin Furnas on the evils of fast motoring which appeared in The Reader's Digest and has since, in a reprint by Simon & Schuster (after screen re-enactment in The March of Time for last October), reached a circulation of three million copies. It does not venture to translate into pictures much of the lusty and horrifying blood-reek of the article, but it does present, within conventional limits, an energetic little sermon on good highway manners. Lieutenant Knox (Randolph Scott), head of a police traffic department, meets...
Taking the cue from this fast-publicized action, many another commuter tried the same procedure. Some succeeded; some were thrown off. At ticket offices all along the line irate commuters insisted on getting receipts for their money, talked darkly of demanding rebates later. On the third day of the revolt the Transit Commission got a temporary injunction restraining the Long Island from charging more than 2? a mile within the City of New York. Basis of the injunction was the State Railroad Law, which prohibits a road from charging more per mile than its parent company in cities...