Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stock Yards and the Chicago Board of Trade, however, stuck to Central Time because their spheres of business interest lay in that zone. The Chicago Federation of Labor, claiming that under "fast" time its members would have to grope their way to work in total darkness all winter, set out to get 500,000 names on a petition to have the time question put to referendum. And the railroads, whose 13,000 Chicago schedules had been thrown askew, awaited the outcome of an Interstate Commerce Commission investigation to determine on what time basis the carriers should operate...
Late in the period, Joe Hindle, wing on the Puritan second line, drove a fast one past the Eli net tender after an assist by Dan Burbank...
Hard-packed snow over an ice crust made the trial both fast and treacherous for the 60 odd competitors in the sixth annual Hochebirge Invitation Ski Race held Sunday on the Richard Taft Trial. The Crimson team finished fourth in a field...
...month, was recovering from influenza. These two were scarcely missed as a cheering crowd watched Venzke dodge Cunningham's heels. On the last straightaway, with 40 yd. to go, Venzke unleashed a spurt, split the tape 6 ft. in front. To Cunningham went the credit of setting so fast a pace that the winner set a new world record: 3 min. 49.9 sec. In the final track event a hawk-nosed, granite-jawed Syracuse junior, Edward ("Obie") O'Brien, furnished another thrill. When he went to Syracuse, he was a sprinter. Coach Tom Keane, developer of many...
Most experienced critics have little patience with the rank & file of young musicians who want to play in public. Marjorie Edwards was well above the average. She exhibited a real flair for the violin, fast-flying fingers that found the notes surely, an earnest sensitive approach to the music she played. Even so, finicky critics refused to pronounce her ripe for a concert career. The quality of her tone was often small and immature, best suited to the soft feathery Cuckoo which delighted her audience so much that she had to play it twice...