Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possible to mold large objects (chair backs and legs, table tops, radio cabinets) from plastics. Tanks nine feet in diameter have been molded from Haveg, a phenol-aldehyde. Textiles can be impregnated with plastics to stop their creasing. Dr. Ellis believes that "the synthetic resin dwelling house is fast approaching realization," and that "resins made from urea & formaldehyde possess several advantages over those from phenol & formaldehyde. They are stronger, lighter in color, more resistant to darkening under the influence of light...
...wildly beating the air, sometimes carefully beating Sharkey's pate. When Sharkey landed a nasty loin-blow, Levinsky returned it. When Sharkey won his only decisive round - the seventh - Levinsky came back to pump blow after blow at Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime fish peddler's Maxwell Street friends, many of whom had climbed over Comiskey Park's fence to watch the bout...
...would a violinist whirring through Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of a Bumblebee react if a red light suddenly flashed on his music stand? If white and blue lights played before him constantly, sometimes at slow speed, sometimes hectically fast? The violinist, claims round, bushy-haired Vladimir Karapetoff, professor of electrical engineering at Cornell University, would perform better than he does now when all he has to guide him are "the wavy motions of two arms and a recurring expression of rage on a conductor's face." To prove his point Professor Karapetoff has invented a switchboard system...
...proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
Methods of hedging against Inflation within U. S. frontiers have become a favorite coffee-&-cognac topic. Purchase of industrial stocks is, of course, the most popular hedge, but commodities and land have been creeping up fast since the NRA threatened profits with higher labor costs. Some shrewd businessmen with little capital at stake argue that the best thing is to go as deep into debt as the banks (or friends) will allow; eventually they will pay off with cheaper dollars. Carl Sriyder, economist for the Federal Reserve Board, was asked lately by a wealthy friend how he could hedge against...