Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traffic lights it leaves everything else behind because the operator merely steps on the throttle while the other cars are shifting gears. So fast is the pickup that the car will move from a dead stop as fast os the wheels will turn without skidding...
...safely to France numerous Leftist personages, and Donna Luis Companys, wife of the President of Catalonia. On foot to France 6,000 persons fled from Leftist Spain. To 5,000 of these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...above). About 150 were said to have escaped Death. After finding eight, Mr. Hemingway wrote: "When we saw them at noon they were barefooted and had just been given clothes. They had been naked since they had crossed the Ebro River at daylight. The Ebro, they said, was a fast-flowing, very cold river, and six others who had tried to swim it, four of whom were wounded, drowned. . . . We listened to their story of their break-through after the battalion had been surrounded...
Tokyo's live-wire, fast-growing Yominri, listed among the world's "great newspapers" in an Editor & Publisher survey, specializes in foreign news, spends heavily for scoops. Last week Yominri carried an exclusive story of eight Soviet Army officers in the Far East who decided to follow the example of two who recently escaped by airplane to Estonia, saying they had fled to avoid a purge in which hundreds of Soviet Army & Air Force officers are being secretly executed. According to Yominri, the plane in which the eight fled was chased by Soviet Secret Political Police aircraft...
...Miami Open) and long-driving Jimmy Thomson and painstaking Horton Smith each made headlines with record-smashing 36-hole totals of 131, smooth-moving Harry Cooper, straight as an arrow from tee to green, plodded along-over soft fairways and hard ones, over slow greens and fast ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached the quarter-pole first with winnings of $4,448. A hair's breadth behind was curly-headed Johnny Revolta ($4,390), whose red-hot putting kept him in front of Henry Picard ($4,113), Jimmy Thomson ($3,355), Byron Nelson...