Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHICAGO baseball fans, who have hoped in vain for an American League pennant since the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, have learned to endure an annual disappointment: watching the White Sox get off to a fast start, then fall in a "June Swoon." This year the Sox raced into June as if they really mean to run all the way. One big difference is a scrappy, tobacco-chewing little second baseman named Jacob Nelson Fox. See SPORT, Nellie's Needle...
...increasing costs the only problem facing administrators. To acquire an education in today's fast-paced world requires too much time. Students coming from secondary schools face a long gamut of college, military service, and graduate school. Often they are twenty-five or twenty-six before they finish their education...
...Cambridge, a series of tests in which people asked him to manipulate verbal and mathematical symbols very rapidly, asked him to give "correct" answers to ambiguous questions, and tested his capacity for making or discovering analogies. Rumplestiltskin, it appeared, could do all of these things about 1/16 as fast as the University's electronic calculator, and so he was immediately admitted to the University as a distinguished student...
...greying, crew-cut driver has spent half his life racing cars, from the midgets to 500 monsters. "This is the only ambition I have left in racing," he said before last week's race started. "When I win the 500, I'll hang up my goggles so fast it'll make their heads swim." Wiping the oil off his face, Winner Hanks, who split $103,000 in assorted prizes, announced that when the season ends he will retire and return to Southern California to look at Pacific sunsets...
When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled...