Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undue economy, on the part of the University in an effort to construct the houses and other buildings as cheaply as possible or whether the Houses were a victim of the boom year construction so frequently found in work of that period when buildings were put up as fast and as cheaply as possible at the expense of durability and other qualities which would make it possible for the buildings to stand for many decades to come with a minimum of repairs is a question yet to be settled.PLASTER CRACKS The above picture shows the unusual spreading of the cracks...
...Irish Free State and Czechoslovakia, with two finalists each, a theoretical edge over Sweden and Canada which had only one. A team with two men in the finals could send one careful jumper around the course for a faultless record, and let his comrade on a fast mount go hellbent for speed with a prayer that he would not make too many faults. For the Irish Free State that strategy worked to perfection. Canada had led off with a faultless round in 47⅔ sec., which Sweden beat by three seconds. Then out rode Ireland's Capt. Frederick...
...good team. We've got a great back in Red Franklin, a fast, shifty, 160-lb. fellow who punts well and passes. The rest of the backs block for him. They average about 185 Ib. ... They had to be good to beat Washington State, San Francisco and hold Southern California to a scoreless tie. . . . The center, Clyde Devine, is 6 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 191 Ib. The running guard who plays next to him is Vernon Wedin, eleven inches shorter and 190 Ib. in heft. They're a fine looking pair...
...Isidor Kresel there was a more important question involved. Once during the trial when the prosecutor fired questions so fast that he had no time to amplify his answers, Kresel had started from the witness chair with tears in his eyes. "Give me a chance. I'm fighting for my life,'' he almost sobbed...
...sound-tight rooms from being stuffy, NBC installed an air-conditioning plant consisting of 64 independent units. In an hour these machines suck in 20,000,000 cu. ft. of Manhattan air, dry or moisten it, warm or cool it as required, feed it through the studios so fast that a complete change of air is effected every eight minutes...