Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bankhead had a fine old Southern name, a good fast ball and a fair curve. For the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro American League, he had won ten games against five losses. Branch Rickey personally scouted him and decided he could help the Dodgers...
Last week, in his Brooklyn debut, big (6 ft. 3 in.) Dan Bankhead, fifth Negro player to reach the majors, winged Pirate Outfielder Wally Westlake with a fast ball. A few breaths were tight-held-this might be the "incident" that many baseball men had feared. But Westlake trotted casually down to first. It was clear that, within the space of a single season, fans and players alike were beginning to take Negro players for granted...
Even so, West Coast baseball men insisted, they were sick & tired of serving as blood donors to the big leagues. As fast as the P.C.L. produced its DiMaggios and Williamses, the majors got them. At least, something could be done about that, couldn...
...spirit of Scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer no, he might regard absence...
...like the original uranium pile at the University of Chicago. But uranium needs slow-moving neutrons to make its atoms split. Thus, a uranium pile is made up of small rods of uranium embedded in a large mass of graphite. Plutonium is different: its atoms can be split by fast neutrons. So a pile made of plutonium needs no graphite or other "moderator." The "Nagasaki model" atom bomb is a plutonium pile that reacts so quickly that it blows itself (and the neighborhood) to bits in millionths of a second...