Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stay home from Princeton to go to a Saturday class at nine. He envied all the lucky brighties, but he clung fast to his duty. The teacher, however, wasn't there at seven minutes after nine. Disgust was mingling with resentment in the young man's soul, when in walked the instructor at quarter past. Said he, "Well, fellows, now that you've all shown up you can all go home. There won't be any class today...
...Fast detective work traced the 60 stomachaches to one old horse, a veteran of the French turf. To keep him going all these years his trainers had doped him consistently, more & more. His system had become slowly tolerant and partially immune to huge hypodermic shots of dope which would have killed another horse. When the old plug gave out at last he was bought by an unsuspecting butcher with the usual gold horse's head over his door and the usual polite euphemism on his sign "BOUCHERIE HIPPOPHAGIQUE...
Determination is the chief virtue which is helping Helen Jepson to climb fast in opera. She was born 29 years ago in Titusville, Pa., where her father kept a candy and hardware store combined. Her first job was as a corset-fitter in an Akron department store. Then by selling phonograph records she became converted to opera, won a scholarship at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music...
...lightweight elements with deutons (nuclei of heavy hydrogen). With "slow neutrons" lately it has been found possible to produce gamma radiation from silver. For mathematical reasons that physicists find increasingly hard to translate into English, slow neutrons braked by a paraffin shield have more effect on the target than fast ones, are currently lionized in every physics journal...
...countries, especially by California's Lawrence and Italy's Fermi. Dr. Lawrence obtained 5,000,000-volt gamma rays from salt, evoked the possibility of injecting harmless but radioactivated salt compounds into the human body as a cancer remedy. Dr. Fermi has coaxed radiations of beta particles (fast electrons) from phosphorus, iron, silicon, aluminum, chlorine, vanadium. copper, arsenic, silver, tellurium, iodine, a dozen others...