Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day the storm-signals were hoisted and speedily changed to hurricane warnings. The barometer was around 29.25, falling fast. The sky was yellowish. Pelicans stood motionless on keys in ridiculous single file, ogled each other. It grew black...
Only one British railroad passenger was killed during 1925 according to statistics released at London last week. During the same period 6,766 persons were killed in U. S. railroad wrecks. As everyone knows British railroad trains are typically operated on very fast schedules, the "crack trains" between England and Scotland being probably the fastest trains operated on regular schedule in any part of the world...
...little petition only a few months old. But I grew fast-now I am 5 ft. tall and have to be tied up in a bag. I am a very important petition-17,226 pages constitute my physique; within me are the signatures of 437,163 Illinois voters and all kinds of notary public seals...
...owns an automobile will be able to buy a plane. . . . The man on the ground has an idea that airplane riding will make him sick and be too thrilling. As a matter of fact there is not as much 'kick' in flying as there is in fast automobile riding...
Metallurgists for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. of Pittsburgh have devised this new steel, which they have named "Jalcase." It possesses a "triple combination of fast machining, casehardening and forging properties...