Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honest farmer father and the judge who sentenced him, he was set free and went home. But prison had not cured him, for now his friends were the hardest of hard criminals. He resumed his career with petty robberies in Indianapolis, got enough cash to buy a fast car and guns, turned to bank robbing for which his contempt for human life fitted him. Within three months after his release from prison three banks alone yielded him over $40,000. With his new wealth and daring he plotted the release of his jailbird cronies whom he supplied with smuggled arms...
...campaign to break the caste system and liberate Hindu Untouchables. Driving into Buxar last week, St. Gandhi's automobile was waylaid by an angry, hooting crowd which smashed windshield, windows and hood, hurt everyone in the car but St. Gandhi. Deeply depressed, the Mahatma planned a three-week fast as penance. It was the first recorded attack on India's slipping idol...
...pictures by telephoto. The idea originated with American Telephone & Telegraph Co. which had spent $2,800,000 on a telephoto system, only to abandon it last summer for lack of patronage. Prime reason: pictures were rarely good or important enough to warrant the expense of telephoto transmission instead of fast delivery by airmail. Secondary reasons: there were transmitting stations in only eight cities. It took an hour to prepare a picture for transmission, and the results usually were fuzzy...
...from Earth at speeds proportional to their distances, and the redshift of the farthest whose spectra could be analyzed (about 150,000,000 lightyears) indicated the thumping pace of 15,000 miles per second. Thus the galaxies at the frontiers of the observable universe must be receding twice as fast, and at the unseen bounds of the cosmos the nebular velocity must be greater than that of light...
Drake. Sunny weather and a fast track helped the Western teams to beat most Eastern teams' times in rainy Philadelphia. In the field events, the Drake Relays produced a downright sensation...