Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland and Lowell entered their game rated on even terms. A heavy, fast Bellboy line which has performed well defensively all season was given an even chance to smash up the highly-touted Deacon running plays...
This posed a pretty problem for campaigning Democratic Governor Lehman. With Racket Buster Dewey, his Republican opponent, grinning down from an anticorruption platform, Mr. Lehman had to step fast. He also had to step delicately, because although he had twice before superseded troublesome Democrat Geoghan with special prosecutors, he refused to remove him from office at the request of a special grand jury two years ago. Last week, after hearing both Mr. Geoghan and Mr. Herlands present their cases, Governor Lehman announced that Mr. Geoghan would be superseded again, delayed naming a special prosecutor to investigate Mr. Geoghan and other...
...Czechoslovak male aged over 18 was last week ordered to register for Labor Service, a program created by the Syrovy Cabinet to conscript in effect every jobless Czechoslovak to build new railways, highways and other projects necessary to get the dismembered Czechoslovak Republic reorganized and on its feet. As fast as they are mustered out of the Czechoslovak army, great numbers of recruits will be mustered into the Labor Service, and stern punishment was decreed for the new Czechoslovak crime of giving a man a "fake job," thus exempting from Labor Service...
...military-minded, the demonstration proved that even a mobile enemy radio unit would have to be extremely laconic to avoid detection; to the airline safety-minded, it meant that a pilot off his course could orient himself almost as fast as he could tune in radio bearings...
While they are in power, Europe's dictators, premiers and tycoons seem to be sitting solidly on their thrones, or behind them. Just how rapidly they can lose their strength, how fast and far they can fall, and how quickly they can be forgotten, is demonstrated in Isaac Marcosson's reminiscences of Europe's heroes of 15 years ago. The work of a veteran Sateve-post contributor, Turbulent Years' 18 chapters include sketches of Trotsky, Sun Yatsen, Calles, an essay on dictators in general, as Marcosson saw them. Some samples...