Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King George V in Great Britain and Northern Ireland were in a confused state of mind under a Prime Minister who publicly deplored last week the telegraph and methods "speedy" or "modern" (see p. 14), infuriated and aroused Il Duce with his rapid-fire brain, his passion for driving fast cars and his penniless origin. In white-hot anger Benito Mussolini, addressing colonists on the Pontine Marshes, which he has drained and in which last week he opened on schedule another new little city, roared: "This is a day of Italian faith in this people's rights...
...head the fast-growing Japanese-dominated "Autonomous Government" in North China headed by twerpish-looking Mr. Yin Ju-keng. who deceives nobody by styling himself "General,", a thumping Chinese Big Name was badly needed last week by Japan...
...welter of exhibits purporting to show what Science had done for Mankind. What he saw did not impress Engineer Clifford Cook Furnas. The festoons of electric lights, he knew, burned with an efficiency of less than 2%. The television was blurry. The loudspeakers were squawky. There were sleek, fast automobiles which converted less than a tenth of their fuel into motive power. Display after display recounted the triumphs of medicine while a preventable outbreak of amebic dysentery in Chicago sickened 721 people, killed...
...championship at 16. Since then, she has won the U. S. title every year except 1934, when she journeyed abroad, finished third in the European championship. At Radcliffe, in addition to skating, she participated in collegiate theatricals, became a topnotch ballroom dancer, sculled vigorously on the Charles, played a fast game of tennis, rode horseback. Vivacious, chic, unmarried, she has more recently won the admiration of the staff of the New York Times, for which she writes a competent by-line account of women's sports. Only one peculiarity mars her makeup: when disconcerted, she always emits a strident...
...Five fast racquetmen from Dunster completely swamped the Rabbits yesterday, 5-0, in League D. But the League B Leverett squad made a strong showing to down Dunster...