Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moving fast. Premier-Botanist Tosheff had 30 Army officers. 30 politicians jailed on charges of high treason. Martial law was declared, Sofia's streets were cleared at rifle point after a 10 p. m. curfew, and the Cabinet stayed on in session getting telephone reports from police headquarters on new arrests until the total had reached 255, including former Premier Colonel Gueorguieff and a delegation of returned Bulgarian exiles from Yugoslavia...
...reward for their highly satisfactory showing of last Saturday, when they downed an Exeter eleven which had itself beaten the Yale yearlings, Stabley has planned another hard week of scrimmaging for his charges before they face the heavy and fast aggregation up at Woreester...
...Throughout our National history we have had a great program of public improvements, and in these past two years all that we have done has been to accelerate that program. . . . No sensible person is foolish enough to draw hard and fast classifications as to the usefulness or need. Obviously, for instance, this great Boulder Dam warrants universal approval because it will prevent floods and flood damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five...
Unique development of the convention's lighter side was a free, three-day beer party given by Anheuser-Busch on the grounds of its famed brewery on the banks of the Mississippi. More than 100,000 guests were served by 80 bartenders who put out the brew so fast that it had to be supplied from freight cars shunted up on a siding. Host was Adolphus A. Busch Jr., whose aged grandmother Lilly, caught in her native Germany when the War broke out, was callously stripped and searched as a spy at Key West when she finally got back...
Roscoe Pound was 12 when he entered the University of Nebraska. Husky and fast, he played football and baseball, formed a habit, which he kept up until a decade ago, of trotting one mile each day. After graduation and a year at Harvard Law School, he worked in a Lincoln law office a few years until one day his employer called him in, said: "Roscoe, you know enough law. Go see the county bar examiner. And take along a box of cigars." The examiner opened the box of cigars, noted that they were his favorite brand, reflected: "Well, Roscoe...