Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Which is correct ? If the latter, you owe an apology to the RFC, which seems to be the only Government agency that has not played fast and loose with the taxpayers' money...
Ever since he read a newspaper editorial on the small speedster some time ago, Dr. Irving Langmuir, General Electric Co.'s Nobel Prizewinning research ace, has doubted that it could fly anywhere near as fast as it was billed. Recently, with characteristic thoroughness. Dr. Langmuir set out to debunk the botfly; last week he published his findings in Science...
...week the best sharpshooter of all U. S. cartoonists had his third show of notable paintings. William Gropper is a short, thick man with dreamy grey eyes and an air of subdued but uninhibited amusement. He paints as he draws for the New Masses, from memory or imagination, as fast as he can and as briefly, with rich reds, yellows and slashing whites. Last summer he spent three months in the West, exhibited the results last week. Among them: Waiting (see cut), a Kansas cow, dying of thirst, on whom the buzzards have already lit; Security, showing more fortunate horses...
...WORK-Oscar Brynes- Harcourt, Brace ($1.25). A fast, comprehensive notation of a fast, comprehensive day's work-Brooklyn's 1934 $500,000 armored-car robbery. Poet Brynes's first published book reveals him as an able handler of 1) melodramatic narrative, 2) a sawed-off vernacular with a hot business-end, cool trigger...
Charlie Hutter took the finals in the 50 free-style in 23.3, failing to break his Harvard record of 23 flat. Although he started well, made a fast turn, and stroked along beautifully, the fact that all six lanes were occupied by splashing mermen probably cut his time down somewhat. Tonight Hutter will have his last Harvard pool chance at his 100 record of 52 flat. Reilly of Rutgers, and White of Bowdoin tied for second behind the Crimson captain, and Rose of Rutgers was fourth...