Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuhrer drove from the Chancellery to the Lustgarten on his way to view a military birthday parade in his honor, 2,000,000 heils greeted him. On the new Via Triumphalis, the broad East-West "axis" which Herr Hitler himself ordered cut through the heart of a fast rebuilding capital, the former corporal acted for all the world like an emperor. He wore his usual simple brown Nazi uniform, but on the cap, below a spread eagle, were gilded oak leaves encasing a swastika-the mark of the supreme military commander he is. He sat on a gilded thronelike chair...
Beneath the surface of the news, bigger forces were in motion. Hitler's Germany warned that the post-War world had ended. Its end was soon thundered by the renewed sound of big guns pounding in Japan's 1932 attack on Shanghai. Crises began to come so fast, were reported so fully, speculated about so constantly, that they became horrifyingly familiar: a crisis over the League censure of Japan for seizing Manchukuo, followed by crises over the brief civil war in Austria, the assassinations of Dollfuss and of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, over the invasion of Ethiopia...
When they reached the first of the three roller-coaster Newton hills, Tarzan decided to climb the hill as fast as he could. Opening his mouth wide for a minute he let the raindrops trickle in. Then, refreshed, he streaked up the hill like a supercharged racing car. From then on, it was a lonely...
...Scott Forester's three novels (the first two, Beat to Quarters and Ship of the Line already published) of an English naval genius in Napoleonic times. More imaginative than Mutiny on the Bounty, it is that rare book, adventure romance treated realistically, lively entertainment with sound historical background, fast narrative with subtle characterization. Captain Horatio Hornblower stacks up with the most exciting and best written adventure stories in the language...
There is power, too, in Jaakko's running events. Although there will be no outstanding quarter milers if Joe Donnelly is saved for the relay, Sophomores Dan Hamilton and Tim Willcox have been coming fast. In the 880 are veterans A1 Hanlon, Joe Bradley, and last year's Yardling captain Rolla Campbell. A potential record-breaker, Campbell last year covered the half in 1.57.4, but is still weak as the result of a long illness last winter...