Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theme song, "Lovable and Sweet", is as fast and sparkling a tune as has been tacked on to any movie in a long time. Via perfect synchronization "The Four Seasons" send the tune over the talkie instruments and keep the picture moving along at a swift pace...
Chicago and the University of Chicago are fast accustoming themselves to the presence of 30-year-old Robert Maynard Hutchins, youngest great-university president in the land (TIME, May 6). Last week he addressed Chicago's Union League Club, delivering himself of several quotable remarks, including the following...
Starting at a fast clip, the Yale team held the lead during the first mile. Then a Crimson group passed their opponents, but Captain W. F. Smith of the Elis kept a long lead over the field. Following him at about 50 yards Hallowell watched Smith until the last two miles, during which he edged up steadily, and passed the Yale leader with the finish in sight, winning finally by ten yards...
...pool was described as including George F. Baker's First National, thus renewing the old Morgan-Baker alliance which once caused J. P. Morgan to remark that the friendship of George F. Baker was the most valuable asset that he or his father had ever known. Mr. Baker, fast approaching his goth birthday, had known Panic before Morgan Partner Lament was born. Compared to Morgan-Baker efforts of the past, however, the 1929 crisis was notable through the presence of a non-Morgan bank-National City, by far the largest in the U. S.-in a position of vital...
...tendency towards such diversification in the fields of college research, while in keeping with the advance of modern science, is fast breaking up what is left of the homogeneity of the university of today. Moreover, it does not seem as if the problem of modern research was being administered in as efficient way as possible. In the welter of new chairs of various sciences which are being founded in the universities of the country, there are bound to be many duplications. Among graduate schools specializing in certain fields there are many whose aims and methods of teaching are the same...