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Word: fasting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speed, and, within limits, this does not seem to be bad. Police regulations to the contrary, the difference between fifty and sixty on the open road in daylight cannot be regarded as serious, and when students are picked up for clocking sixty under circumstances that clearly warrant a fast clip, it is only the respect for the law that suffers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPEED LIMIT--USE YOUR BRAINS | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...Fast moving electrons make an impression on a photographic plate as X-rays do, but Davisson's electrons were too slow to obtain such a picture. So he "felt" the pattern of his reflected beam by moving an electron collector around in the recoil region. Connected to an ammeter, the collector translated the strength of the electron beam at a number of points into measured electric current. The pattern having been thus patiently and ingeniously mapped out, it was seen to consist of true diffraction rings. Concluded the researchers: "Our experiments establish the wave nature of moving electrons with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Prizes | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...they got under way last week, conductors throughout the U. S. had their eyes on the National Orchestral Association. As competently as could be expected from a group of young musicians in which the turnover is fast and rehearsals are few, they played the Franck Symphony, and, with Pianist Muriel Kerr, the fourth Beethoven Concerto. More eyes will be turned on them next month when they play the world premiere of Jacob Weinberg's Gettysburg Address, a symphonic ode to the text of Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Farm | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...bookstore, no rental library except the new-book shelf at the public library; that while the circulation of library books doubled during the Depression, new books in general encountered ''creeping apathy." A possible explanation is that Americans love brightly-colored automobiles, flowers, bright clothing, scandals, fast-moving cinema, more than they like books. But the sale of novels like Gone With the Wind, which has now sold one copy for every hundred U. S. citizens, suggests that Americans will buy books under certain conditions. Another answer is the difficulty most people have in finding a bookstore where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book Fair | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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