Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated that the Government would spend $10,569,000,000 in fiscal 1934 of which $7,523,000,000 was for emergency expenses exclusive of subsidies to cut farm production. Last week it became apparent that the Administration had not been able to toss out dollars as fast as it had planned. With nine months of the fiscal year past, it had spent a total of $4,848,000,000-only about $4 for every $3 spent by Herbert Hoover in the corresponding nine months of the previous year. The Roosevelt Administration's emergency expenses for nine months amounted...
...defense against an angry, sharp-toothed male, but they sometimes make the ice fly in front of their rivals in the race to the main herd, and sometimes a bullet goes astray. A swiler must be light on his feet, for a seal can lollop over the ice as fast as a man can run. A good swiler can skin a seal in 40 to 60 seconds, and may take as many as 120 sculps per day. He may drag his sculps back to the ship at the day's end, or may pile them...
First Game was played in Detroit where Chicago had not won a hockey game in two years. Both fast, light teams, unpopular with crowds all winter because they lacked power to play "open" hockey against heavier opponents, Black Hawks and Red Wings started by playing even more cautiously than usual against each other. Seasoned Lionel Conacher, most celebrated all-around athlete in Canada, made the first goal for Chicago near the end of the first period. Herb Lewis, captain and star left wing of Detroit's first forward line, tied the score in the third. In games...
...capes. Banderillero Calderon took Belmonte under his wing, taught him everything he knew, made him walk every day to strengthen his feeble legs, carrying an iron rod. From the very beginning of his career Belmonte was frequently hurt: his bad legs made it impossible for him to run fast; he always let the bull pass him too close for comfort, sometimes too close lor safety. He served a rough apprenticeship in the ring, fighting wherever and for whatever he could. With his first profits he rescued his family from the poorhouse...
...companion picture has Joan Blondrell acting with the Gable like Pat O'Brien in "I've got your Number." Renors go rather to Mr. O'Brien in "I've got your Number." Renors go rather to Mr. O'Brien than to Miss Blondell. The picture is fast-moving, amusing, and has its romantic moments...