Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conscious of a real and active assault on the tradition of academic freedom. The country at large frets at "fads and fancies" in our colleges and universities and is demanding a more utilitarian product. Even some very thoughtful persons are wondering if science has not moved too fast for the world in the last century and if a "breathing-spell" on research and invention should not be declared...
...puppet Empire of Manchukuo, with the Japanese. Army jerking the strings, last week hurled fast-moving military detachments into Inner Mongolia and seized its capital, Pailingmiao. Apparently this was done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
...battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
Latest additions to the roster are Robert H. Waldinger '36 and Louis B. Carr '37, who reported from hockey last week. The former will help carry the burden behind the plate, while Carr, a week hitter, but fast and strong armed, may be very much in the battle for the shortstop...
...Hitler's fast rise to power was inseparably tied up with his promises to free Germany and to put her back on a level with the other great nations of the world, and his present position is only due to the feeling pervading all Germany that the world hated her and wanted to enslave her for all time. It is just the kind of feeling that your editorial represents and the kind of action that it endorses that put Hitler more firmly in the saddle and make many of us wonder whether he isn't justified in renouncing dictated treaties...