Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within the limitations of the naturalistic philosophy. This fact has led him into a fundamental error--or at least a fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations." In insisting on the faith of the notoriously skeptical...
...treasuries last week to fling fleets of battle planes, flotillas of war craft and whole armies of eager young troops upon Leticia, a humid jungle town just under the Equator and 2,500 mi. up the world's biggest river, turgid Mother Amazon who oozes along about as fast as most women walk...
...will find his students far different from the corn-fed stalwarts of Illinois, the more so as he goes southward among N. Y. U.'s five scattered major centres. On the Heights there are: fraternity houses and dormitories; a genial campus policeman named John Quigley who was a fast friend of the late Sir Thomas Lipton; the famed Hall of Fame...
...captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety...
...Fast mail trains . . . huge letter bags, bearing hundreds of thousands of orders . . . lightning fast machines opening envelopes with a single scissors' stroke . . . miles of pneumatic tubes carrying orders to a score of departments . . . vast aisles of ready merchandise . . . your order filled . . . checked . . . placed on great moving belts . . . rushed down spiral carriers to shipping rooms . . . for packing, labeling, stamping . . . other great mail bags . . . fast mail trains . . . your order is at your door...