Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the Roof. Frantic cries from inside a nearby flattened shop came from two women and two children pinned beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast. The two rescued women, their babies in their arms, crawled out, red-faced and shaking, shouting "Arigato, arigato!" (Thank you, thank you!). Almost immediately the fire jumped across the street and caught the building from which they had just been rescued...
...Under her direction, a Boy Scout took a young buddy through three grades in three months. A 17-year-old "total reading disability" case was learning 73 new words a day within three months. She has also helped Phi Beta Kappa students who think they can't read fast enough (usual diagnosis: they are reading word by word, instead of by groups of words...
Under the University of Chicago's self-starting, self-winding curriculum, undergraduates set their own pace: they can get their degrees as fast as they earn them. William Hamburger, 20, was not the first in Chicago's history to get his bachelor's degree in one year. But he was the first to do it with...
...best jockey in France, he made money fast and gambled it away until the day in 1940 when he married a nightclub dancer. He hasn't been in a gambling casino since...
...Hotels Statler Co., second largest hotel chain in the U.S., mopped up behind its fast extending lines. From the Pennsylvania Railroad, for an undisclosed sum, it bought Manhattan's 2,200-room Hotel Pennsylvania, which Statler has managed since it was built...