Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenge. Goya II soon faltered and Jockey Michael Beary, who had run Mid-Day Sun to the outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast to the finish-for a slow 2 min. 37 3/5 sec.-with Sandsprite and Le Grand Duc second and third...
...sixth canto, a base on balls, an error, and four safe blows by the Crimson apparently put the game on ice, but he Tufts batters rallied dangerously in the ninth. Three runs on four hits and a misplay were chalked up, before Ingalls' fast ball subdued the Jumbos...
...prolific poetic dramatist, "has lived by its wits during most of its history. It will continue to live by its wits and to be the most important American art. . . . Governments tax it, scalpers scalp it, unions hold it up, dramatists quarrel with producers, moving pictures devour its children as fast as they appear-and still our theatre is the centre of civilization in New York and in the United States and quite amazingly, the foremost theatre of the world...
...gust tunnel is important because all airplanes experience their maximum loads when they encounter sudden gusts or "bumps." The gust tunnel faces upward and a small model is shot across 'its top at 50 m.p.h. Accelerometers and a fast camera record how it reacts. Gusts are also being measured by pocket-size gadgets called V-G recorders installed on many airline transports. The China Clipper has one, for example, which indicates that maximum gust velocity over the Pacific averages 30 ft. per sec. up & down...
...active workers in U. S. churches, warm weather annually brings conventions and conferences at which the ways of doing God's work on earth are discussed at length. Livelier than usual were these curtain-raisers of fast week...