Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast was the cow moving...
...Well, was she going fast or slowly...
...fast as cable wires could hum. Legion National Commander Louis Arthur Johnson rebuked Easterwood: "Constitution prohibits honorary memberships in American Legion. Please govern yourself accordingly." Undaunted, Easterwood invited King Victor Emanuel to address the Legion's October convention in Chicago by radio, told him the Legion's 1936 convention would probably be held in Rome. The King gave Easterwood his warm, rabbit-toothed smile. Said Legion ary Easterwood of his new friends: "They both are war veterans of a country allied with us in the World War, and they have a right to wear the buttons...
...Englishman preparation for a race is dependent only on common sense of each runner. To the American, the preparation depends not on the common sense of the individual but on the common sense of a hard and fast set of rules. Almost in military fashion the American is forced to follow this code under penalty of losing his place on the team; so true to the laws of human nature, rather than thinking of the end for which the laws are made he has a habit of thinking of them as an infringement on his freedom." Hallowell said...
...they found in that square mile of yellow-tiled palaces the greatest assemblage of treasure in the modern world, collected for over 250 years by the Manchu Emperors. Ever since the fall of the Empire in 1911 bits of that treasure have been dribbling away, though not quite as fast as certain dealers would like collectors to believe. Six months ago when the remnant was moved from Peiping to Shanghai in fear of Japanese invasion, it occupied over 4.000 packing cases, was valued at $20,000.000 (TIME. Feb. 20). Important bits of that treasure have reached the outside world...