Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Moslems, Sikhs, Christians-all gazing out on the terrace where on a cot lay what looked like a week's wash, a great bundle of white linen shrouding the living skeleton of Mahatma Gandhi. Month ago, already an owl-eyed lemur of a man. St. Gandhi began a fast in behalf of the Hindu Untouchables, without whose liberation he believes real self-government in India is impossible...
Just before noon, when the fast was to end, a boy Untouchable began slicing and squeezing oranges. Little Latmaja Naidu, daughter of India's foremost Poetess Sarojini Naidu, tiptoed to the cot. St. Gandhi was too weak to raise his head, but from the middle of the cocoon his eyes flashed behind their thick spectacles...
...token of thanksgiving, Mrs. Gandhi, who had eaten practically nothing during the Mahatma's fast, planted a mango tree in the garden...
Stanford's fast Ben Eastman did not even try to qualify for the 400-metre dash. At 800 metres, he was shut out with a fourth place and the race was won by the individual star of the meet, a dark-haired, sinewy Princeton junior named William Bonthron, who did what no runner has done since Cornell's John Paul Jones in 1912, won the 1,500-metre race as well...
...speed ticker was 41 minutes behind the floor. A. T. & T. jumped 5½ points to $119 a share, American Car & Foundry 5¼ points to $25.25, Liggett & Myers 4¼ points to $91.50, Union Pacific, which last week announced that within six months it would start operating a fast new streamlined train (see p. 12), shot up 10½ points to $112 a share. Most commodities were whirled up to the highest prices of the inflation boom...