Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Double-Header. Delayed two hours by the crush of holiday travel, pack-jammed with mail & passengers, including onetime Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...Delmotte. One day last week, after a year of trying, 40-year-old Pilot Delmotte made five more unsuccessful attempts. On the sixth try, with his fox terrier mascot "Tailwind" in the cockpit, he shot his Caudron Renault monoplane four times over a measured course at Istres, zipped so fast (321 m.p.h.) on one lap that he averaged 314.1 m.p.h. for the four, set a new record. To Pilot Delmotte, for his pains, the French Air Ministry promptly awarded...
Some fishermen were hired to hack the flesh away with knives. Progress was slow. Day followed dreary winter day. A storm blew up, covered beach and carcass with a brawling smother of surf. Toiling waist-deep in the icy water, Andrews and Clark made fast the carcass as best they could. When the weather cleared the precious remains were finally found buried deep in the sand...
...Victor Levintritt '35, one of the best breaststrokes in the country is an other swimmer who has developed fast under the watchful eye of Coach Ulen. Coming to Harvard from the Riverside School in New York City, which, like the Swiss navy, had a swimming team but no pool, Vie was a member of the 1935 Freshman team but was ineligible his Sophomore year. He his been beaten but twice in dual competition...
...Freshman year, Wallace has clipped his time for the 50 from 25 2-5 seconds to about 24. A big fellow with plenty of strength, he likes to be made to work for his position on the team since he is not a natural swimmer. He is fast off the mark and with his stamina makes opposing swimmers wish that they could play basketball in the winter...