Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana called Fronton Jai Alai (Merry Festival Court...
Theories grow fast in any sort of advertising business, and radiomen have a theory to account for the behavior of their industry in hard times. Sponsored radio entertainment, they argue, creates a demand not only for the product advertised but also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...
...already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead of last year on its first eight months, ran up August revenues to top the same month last year by a staggering 70.4%. Despite a depression summer, MBS is still growing fast into the niche it has carved for itself in network broadcasting...
...spokesman, to complain to President Wilson. Then Stoyan refused, this giant lost a lot of faith in democracy, left the gang in sad disgust. What most amazed Stoyan was that a gang of Balkan peasants could lay a track good enough to carry the Northern Pacific's Fast Mail. In his bunk-car he got together a library consisting of a grammar and an unabridged Webster, in three snowbound winters practically memorized them...
...said it was an appropriate time to "do a good turn" for some of the Capital's good neighbors, and such a bridge would "open up" their section of the country. Then he added: "This bridge is one of the things that has got to be done as fast as we can possibly do it." Result: Morgantowners beamed on Candidate Lewis...