Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the announcement of the President-elect's preinauguration tour of South America, one continent where he has never been. Before leaving Washington, Nominee Hoover had asked President Coolidge for a battleship to go on. Last week the White House announced that the U. S.S. Maryland, new and fast, had been assigned. President-elect Hoover lost no time conferring with Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, commandant of the Mare Island Navy Yard (near San Francisco). The departure: at once, from San Pedro, port of Los Angeles, Calif. Probable itinerary: Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, then either over the Andes...
...cloud of ashes blotted the stars, the moon. Waves of heat shot from the mountain and the air choked with sulphur and acid fumes. . . . Farmyard beasts screeched. Cats, fascinated, stood fast facing Etna's black jelly until it caught their fore paws. Then the cats could not drag themselves free, could not bound away. Birds swooped inquisitively towards the moving earth, were paralyzed by the heat and vapors, tumbled down into the mess. Lava buried...
Fresh from their recent victory over the fast Pennsylvania soccer team, the University eleven meets the Springfield College players on Soldiers Field at 2.30 o'clock today...
...exciting revolution against Diaz in the latter part of the last century, and is colored with romance. Class rivalry between peons and old aristocrats and the three-cornered political antagonism among mestizos, creoles, and peninsulars, or half-breeds, native whites, and old Spaniards, furnish the historical background of a fast-moving plot...
...British R-34's fast flight was from New York to England, and over a windblown distance 800 miles less than the Graf Zeppelin's return trip...