Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...available cargo space for gold it had secretly bought through the RFC. Lazard Frères prepared to ship $5,750,000, National City Bank booked $3,500,000 on the Berengaria, Bank of the Manhattan Co., $8,400,000 on the Bremen and the Manhattan, etc. etc. Every fast ship sailing from northern Europe in the next two weeks was reported booked up full. The limit on the amount of gold a ship carries is determined by the insurance companies which restrict the amount they will insure on any one vessel. Last week they were demanding five times...
...Curie-Joliots attacked boron. The expected neutrons hopped out instantly. But positrons (positive electrons) shot out also, and kept on shooting out after the bombardment stopped, as though the boron had been stimulated into a state of radioactivity. After 15 minutes the positrons were still darting out 30% as fast as at first: after 30 minutes 9% as fast; after 45 minutes 2.7%. Theoretically the radiation, though soon dwindling beyond the recording point, would never quite expire. A curve representing it would be a parabola approaching but never quite touching its asymptote...
...with Harvard in 1923. Pond recovered a Harvard fumble, sloshed to Yale's first touchdown against Harvard in seven years. Since 1928 he has been on Yale's coaching staff in charge of scrubs and as chief scout. He is short, thick, dainty on his feet, exceedingly fast. On and off the field he is quiet. He does not scold his players, does not give fight talks, convinces them that they know what to do in a game and need only do it. Personally popular, Ducky Pond was spared the ire of disgruntled alumni, who vowed...
Caught in the wake of a fast Crimson team, the Columbia swimmers found themselves on the short end of a 49-22 score Saturday night, after the best meet seen in the Indoor Athletic Building Pool this year. Captain Ed Stowell and Vic Leventritt provided two of the many thrills of the evening when both of them lowered their records to close to the pool marks...
...late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely that they will be afforded a sufficient opportunity again. The crucial moment in France has passed and has left the opponents of the existing order honorless and covered with dust from their fast-stepping rivals...