Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merit" the racing colors of King George and three other prominent turfmen.* After 9,000,000 tickets had been printed and many sold, Scotland Yard suddenly intervened. Stern Home Secretary Sir John Gilmour held the scheme to be a lottery. His Grace the Duke of Atholl had to think fast...
...order. As Broker Ross backed away, in rushed New Broker Anthony McKin of G. H. Walker & Co. with an order to sell 1,000 shares of OWS. Last sale stood on the board at 38, but as he offered his stock the other brokers bid the price down as fast as it had risen. He did not succeed in selling till the price was down to 23. Then oldsters, laughing at the novices, tore off their collars, poured water in their pockets, completed
...nitrogen in its blood that a human being can. They save him-when he surfaces swiftly after sounding deep- from the pain and dizziness called caisson disease or "the bends" experienced by human deep-sea divers, in whose veins bubbles of nitrogen form when they come up too fast...
...only a very trifling parts of the universe, as it is now unfolding before the researches of Shapley and others engaged in taking soundings in from stars which are traveling outwardly, or away from the earth, are broadened; and this effect is used as a speedometer in telling how fast the stars were traveling...
...roughly 11,000 years, then lapses for an equal period while the southern hemisphere takes its turn. Confirmation of this astronomical hypothesis Dr. Antevs had last week in varves: layers of sediments deposited, one layer a year, by melting glaciers. The varves are light-tinted when glacial ice melts fast (hot summers), dark-tinted when it melts slowly (cool summers). Dr. Antevs counted and deciphered 35,000 varves, found a cycle of alternately cool & warm summers in close agreement with the Spitaler calculations...