Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Culling Albert is easily the most spectacular T-quarterback going, and possibly the brainiest (chief rival: Sid Luckman of the Chicago Bears). Frankie is light (170 lbs.) and fast, and constantly working at what he considers his great talent: ball handling. Even in practice, he constantly asks his teammates whether they could see the ball on that last play. After one game, he asked the radio announcer how often he fooled...
When he arrived from Russia, he was out to burn up the U.S. with his razzle-dazzle speed. In his debut with the New York Philharmonic, he raced through the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto so fast that gouty Sir Thomas Beecham would not even try to keep up with him. By 1935, in the heyday of his elegant pink period (when he indulged in pink striped shirts and red ties), Horowitz was playing more than 70 concerts a year, and grossing about $300,000. Then he folded, up, with appendicitis complicated by phlebitis...
...fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess...
Later, in Boston's Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Plastic Surgeon Edgar M. Holmes loosened her tongue (held fast by scar tissue), closed the hole in the roof of her mouth, replaced the bones in the nose by a graft from the hip bone. In a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Holmes reported on the outcome of the case...
Civilian scientists (many of them financed by the military) are helping. A group at the University of Chicago has discovered that pressure waves in the high atmosphere are different from those at lower levels. When the waves are comparatively short and fast-moving, they usually lead to nasty weather below. At M.I.T. and elsewhere, meteorologists are clocking high-level winds and trying to find out what makes them speed so fast. Most of the information comes from "sounding balloons," but a little is trickling in from rockets, which bring back important figures from 60 miles straight...