Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a special air-cargo rate that would make this operation economically possible was approved by the U.S. Government and, in May of 1941, our Air Express edition (now called Latin American) began. It was printed on fast offset presses in Jersey City, N.J. and carried by Pan American Airways planes to 20 countries in South and Central America, thereby cutting delivery time by three weeks. We also worked out a technique of photographing TIME'S editorial copy on film, which could be rushed by air to Latin American printing plants...
...most of the U.S., "squash" is still only a vegetable. But in some large cities, most notably Philadelphia, Boston and New York, it is a fast, sweaty court game for young men, and the middle-aged who cling to the illusion of physical fitness. A businessman who has no afternoons for golf can squeeze in a game of squash racquets after work, shed a few pounds, get home in time for dinner. At Yale, about five times as many students play it on the university's 86 courts (costing some $300,000) as any other sport...
...proved so successful that Budd dieselized his entire run as fast as he could plow back earnings (now diesels power 80% of the Q's passenger miles, 50% of its freight). The big diesel payoff came in freight. Because of the easier maintenance of diesels, Budd stepped up the Burlington's freight car mileage to 62.7 miles a day by 1947 (v. a national average of 47.6). And the Burlington's net rose last year to an estimated $28 million...
True to expectations, the new Tiger courts were fast. The contest was almost a carbon copy reversal of last years match when Harvard won, 5-4. Henry Foster, number one man for the Crimson, produced the only victory in the top three matches of the contest. The varsity squad meets MIT today...
...English Department has been holding fast to one of the College's last vestiges of out-dated classicism, the requirement of a reading knowledge of Latin or Greek for honors candidates. The sandard defense of this requirement is historical, resting more on "it's always been done" than on the peculiar merits of the languages themselves...