Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result, it is easy to understand why Professor Rand feels that Latin is an essential part of a gentleman's education. It explains too, why so many of the Faculty join him in his attempt to retain the classics requirement. If motorists did not desire to visit new and fast growing settlements of learning, there would be no need to leave this main artery for the unexplored paths...
...Belgium, meanwhile, wholesale and retail prices were rising far too fast to suit Premier van Zeeland. Apparently he had thought Belgian shopkeepers knew as little about international exchange as did the majority of U. S. shopkeepers who disappointed President Roosevelt by not kiting prices as high as he thought they would. Belgian shopkeepers, keen exchange watchers, raised prices this week almost as fast as the belga fell. This made Premier van Zeeland so angry that he lashed out: "The Belgian franc ought to buy just as much merchandise as it did a year ago. Stop thinking of the monetary question...
...question. I do not believe in dictatorship, yet some peoples need good dictatorship. . . . We must buy back some of our land. . . . But we mustn't injure anybody's interest. We must take it easy, slowly, with due consideration. The misguided opposition wishes to do things too fast...
...years ago, is editor of the Chinese Journal, one of two Chinese dailies in New York City. The Chinese Nationalist Daily is conservative, regular; the Journal, militantly liberal, highly irregular. Its eight pages of Chinese text are written in longhand by Editor Jee and two assistants. Eight compositors, lightning fast at their trade, set the Chinese characters by hand at the rate of half a column per hour. The Journal is read by 6,500 Chinese...
...largest and most promising fields of swimming material ever gathered together for one meet will compete in the fast pool here, praised as conducive to record-breaking races, as world records are shattered. The reported best times of the entrants are many seconds faster than the existing records...