Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Britain announced that she is building cruisers as fast as the naval treaty allows-three per year. In the U. S. Navy's mind, the "Black" fleet of Problem No. 14 that sweeps east this week from Hawaii to the mainland, represents no fleet but Japan's. U. S. sea-dogs frankly expect to see a real Japanese fleet sail the same course, some day, trying to strike the same blow on the Pacific coast. All plans for defense are predicated upon that possibility-including the presence of the Scouting Force west of the Panama Canal...
Originated in Iowa, that technique last week was fast spreading to the rest of the country. Throughout the Midwest auction after auction was held at which a debtor's friends bid in his property for a few cents and then returned it to him while the creditor was being restrained, forcibly or otherwise, from participating in the sale. At Deshler, Ohio, a $400 debt was extinguished last week for $2.15. At Malinta, in the same State, a large noose was ominously suspended from Albert Roehl's barn to scare off outside bidders. Illinois' Governor Horner...
Good at such juggling is the new Finance Minister, nimble Georges Etienne Bonnet, who plays with fair skill the fast, exciting Basque ball game of jai-alai. In 1919 Georges Bonnet served France as Chief of Demobilization, has written stacks of books on the most varied subjects: The Soul of a Soldier; Philosophy of Law; The Finances of France; Letters to a Bourgeois of 1914. Last week M. Bonnet proposed to juggle some four billion francs out of the deficit by suspending during the crisis amortization of the national sinking fund and by transferring the deficits of the French State...
...what that meant. Adrian Iselin's Ace, a ghost in light airs, already had taken a third in the first race, a first in the second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still in front, 1 min., 15 sec. at the finish. Later...
...nearly a month, the Crimson Varsity quintet will face a strong Navy five at 8.30 o'clock this evening in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Midshipmen are slight favorites, due to the fact that they have lost only one contest this season; they were nosed out by the fast University of Pennsylvania quintet...