Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a climactic murder, cross-examination and an impassive criminal that rivals any fast-moving courtroom scene in a modern play. On the whole, "Hostile valley" does not aim at any particular effect. Writing casually, the author creates his atmosphere, sketches in his characters, works them into a simple plot that can include his murder mystery denouncement and thus aims to strike upon at least one element that will held the interest of the average reader...
...race will be over the mile and a half course on the Severn river thus giving the opposing craws a distinct advantage over the Crimson eight which is designed principally, for distance race. Navy and Penn are both rated as fast crews despite Princeton's defeat of the former and Yale's victory over Pennsylvania on the Harlem...
...making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments, and I was afraid...
...Rhode Island settler who bought a "dwelling house and two lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around the Horn to be traded for gold nuggets on the Coast...
...Author. Percy Molesworth Sykes was bom 67 years ago, played racquets and ran a fast mile at Rugby and Sandhurst. He was gazetted in the 16th Lancers, was almost constantly in Persia and Baluchistan for 26 years after 1893 but went to the South African War, was wounded and decorated. He explored parts of central Persia, surveyed it for a telegraph line, established three consulates, was the first European to climb Tartan and Bazman volcanoes. When German agents and Turks were stirring up the country during the War, he took command of 3,000 untrained natives, handily restored order. Other...