Word: fasted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sequoia National Park, form an allegiance which causes them to behave like the lion and the lamb in the Biblical text. Captured in infancy by a kind-hearted tourist girl (Jean Parker), Gato, the puma, and Malibu, the deer, soon learn to lap from the same dish. They are fast friends by the time Gato's habit of raiding the neighbor's chicken coop makes it necessary for their mistress to turn both loose in the forest...
...Quentin Prison, jutting into the Bay 10 miles above San Francisco, had space for only 3,000 inmates. Crammed into it were nearly 6,000, world's biggest prison population. Only way the Board could make room for new prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
Flagship of the British merchant fleet after the Cunard White Star merger last year was neither the huge (56,000 tons) Majestic nor the fast (28 knots) Mauretania, nor the proud Berengaria. Instead the red-and-gold burgee of the combined fleet's commodore flew from the main truck of a little (20,000 tons) old (1921) ship called Samaria. Only reason that vessel flew the commodore's flag was because Commodore Robert G. Malin, a quiet man, liked little ships better than big ones, liked the Samaria best...
...Mayo, Order of the British Empire, Associate Member of the Institute of Chemists, Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Major Mayo's invention, now building at Short Brothers' Rochester (England) plant, is known as the Composite Aircraft. Simple in theory, it consists of a small, fast mail plane with high wind loading, mounted rigidly atop a huge flying boat. Unable to leave the ground by itself fully loaded, the sleek little mail plane will perch atop the "mother ship" for the takeoff. With eight engines (four apiece) wide open, the Composite Aircraft will be able to rise easily...
Terraplanef Hudson's fast-selling lowest-priced line, also has an "electric hand" available on all models. Elimination of the gear lever makes all sedan models comfortable for six passengers...