Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...independent. As the professor grew weaker, he was moved to a cot in the reading room of the City Hall, facing the square. Too weak to speak, he read by the hour in Dante's Inferno. As the clock struck six one morning, the hour that ended his fast, Pereda sat up, crossed himself, bowed his head in silent prayer, then swallowed two teaspoonfuls of grapefruit juice. He was carried out of the reading room to an ambulance around which a silent crowd was waiting. From a hospital he announced...
...rookie, Lloyd Johnson) or the Chicago Cubs (with their new outfielder, Chuck Klein, leading batsman of the league, bought for $125,000 from Philadelphia). The St. Louis Cardinals had a new pitcher, Paul Dean, brother of talkative Jerome ("Dizzy") Dean and a team of fast opportunistic young players. Philadelphia's weak point last year was pitching; Manager Jimmy Wilson was still trying to make up his mind last week which pitchers to keep from a staff of 13. The accident to Maranville left Boston with a weak infield. Brooklyn and Cincinnati looked much as they did at the start...
These two fast thawers of frozen credit politely refused to reveal their method of transferring marks out of Germany. All big banks with German connections know how to wangle marks into dollars, francs or pounds but the process (quite legal) is a deep trade secret and each bank has its own system. Highly involved, it usually entails purchasing marks at a big discount from holders of frozen credits, then selling the marks to people who are forced to buy or travel in Germany. But Messrs. Wreszynski & Norris will pay more for their marks than legitimate bankers, sometimes 2%, sometimes...
...measured amount of electric current. In the power station, besides the standard wattmeter which constantly records the total current in use and charts the daily peak loads, is a Hopkins wattmeter on which the recording chart is driven 96 times faster than standard. A few inches of this fast chart are required to record the drain on the power house for only 30 seconds. If the 30 seconds are taken when the station load is fairly steady, the recording line is practically straight. In the broadcasting station is a Hopkins "wattmeter receiver" with a fast chart to which is electrically...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is "one of the three or four men of real stature in the Cabinet." and fast-ripening Presidential timber. Observer thinks Rexford Guy Tugwell "a genuine conservative who would save the profit system and private ownership of property by adapting them to the technical conditions of the power age," says Tugwell's theory that the Depression was due to psychological rather than to natural causes "is the basis of the New Deal." Budget Director Lewis Douglas, advocatus diaboli in the Administration, "is not a New Dealer at all. . . . As a watchdog of Government expenditure there...