Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been passed along by Congress to the State Governments, which have the spending of it.† Other pressing problems: some of the most desirable species of fish (sturgeon, Lake Erie cisco, bloater, black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
Most exotic of British sports is otter hunting with a specially trained pack of hounds. Streamlined as a small seal, the otter is fast as a dog on land, much faster in water. In the U. S., otter hunting has never become a formalized sport. If it did, it would probably be acclimatized into something different, as was indicated last week at Manhattan's Fourth Annual National Sportsmen's Show. There Emil Liers, Minnesota trapper, proudly exhibited his pack of twelve otters, only ones ever bred, raised and trained in captivity. He has taught them to do practically...
...luck moved fast and deviously one foggy night this week on the Chicago Great Western Railroad. On a siding at Tennant, on the Iowa plains, a freight engine crew scrambled from the cab when a steam pipe burst. With brakes somehow released, the locomotive backed into a string of cars and with reverse lever swung forward by the impact, reversed its direction. Passing its appalled engineer and fireman it swung out on to the main line, picked up a grain car ahead of it and disappeared into the mist. Up the main line at 50 m.p.h. whipped No. 34, Great...
...Springs, Calif. At the age of 20, Charles Crane decided to travel "seriously," spent three months following on foot the arduous trails in a book called Archbishop Grey's Walks in Canton. He made it his business and pleasure to have a finger in every interesting pie, became fast friends with Chiang Kaishek, Thomas Masaryk, Ibn Saud. At a critical moment in Czecho-Slovakia's history he supplied Masaryk with the necessary funds to become President. Later his daughter, Frances, married Masaryk's son, Jan (since divorced...
...York, Pa., studied his father's "ball mill" in operation. There was a certain rate of feeding in ore at which it performed most efficiently, and that rate could be estimated by sound. When the feed was too slow, the noisy clatter of the mill increased; when too fast, the sound was muffled. Workmen were trained to listen for these changes in sound and manipulate the ore flow accordingly. But Harlowe Hardinge noticed that the listeners' judgment was likely to vary as much as 20 decibels. They judged the sound differently when they were tired and when they...