Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rated horsepower and the 14 boilers which burn 700 tons of oil a day to drive the Rex at her usual 26 knots were devouring 1,100 tons. As jovial, ruddy Chief Engineer Luigi Risso turned on more & more steam, pushed up the pace from the Rex's fast norm to a terrific, record average speed of 28.92 knots both officers and passengers noticed with surprise that vibration seemed less as the perfectly balanced propulsive machinery whirred to its highest rhythms. On the last day out the Rex set an all-time liner's record by steaming...
From 96½ lb. the weight of Mahatma Gandhi dropped to 93¼ lb. last week as he began one more "fast unto death" in Yerovda jail to force from the British Raj greater freedom to propagandize on behalf of India's "Untouchables." Alarmed when Faster Gandhi developed acute kidney trouble. Viceroy Earl Willingdon had him removed to a hospital, also released Mrs. Gandhi from jail to permit her to attend her husband...
Considering that Poona and the editorial offices of TIME in New York are nearly 12,000 miles apart, the write-up (TIME, May 22) on Mahatma Gandhi's fast was fair and accurate but for the following...
...mentioned was the fact that the fast was partly due to an American woman, Nila Cram Cook, 22, left a widow by a Greek with a four-year-old son, who last year became Gandhi's disciple, was detailed by him to work among the Harijans (Untouchables) in Bangalore, got into unscrupulous hands, contracted debts and a bad reputation, was recalled...
...buildings in which they study. But the percentage might well drop if schools were better lighted, and if busy teachers did not have to be relied on to raise and lower windowshades. So argued Engineer D. W. Atwater of Westinghouse Lamp Co. in a lecture at New York University fast week advocating a light-control device for schoolrooms. In a metal & glass cabinet affixed to the wall is a photoelectric cell adjusted to snap on the lights when, the sun having gone behind a cloud, the school-room's illumination falls below average intensity. In a special class...