Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first three were seized from Germans during the War, the other two were products of the Government's Wartime ship-building program. As the operator of the U. S. Lines, the Government lost $3,463,484 in the fiscal year 1924, $2,315,862 in 1925. The five fast freight ships of the American Merchant Lines have not been so great a liability...
Trippers just home from Europe, bubbling over with news of how fast the taxicabs go in Paris and how hard it is to buy good cigarets in England, received a sorry setback, and their envious friends a flush of joy, upon opening the September number of McCall's magazine and there reading an article by the daughter of Chief Justice Taft, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning, dean of Bryn Mawr College. "It is estimated," estimated Mrs. Manning, "that nearly 500,000 Americans have crossed the Atlantic this summer. ... I should be the last to question the benefits or the delights...
...word. She takes Everyman to Confession, and when he has scourged himself, brings him to Good Deeds who has won strength now to go along with him. He receives the sacrament, bequeathes his property, prepares to climb into his grave. Alas! Whereto may I truste? Beaute gothe fast awaye fro me. . . . Why, than ye wyll forsake me all! Swete Strengthe, tary a lytel space. . . . Why, Dyscrecyon, wyll ye forsake me? . . . O, all thynge fayleth, save God alone. Voices call to Everyman; out of the darkening air fall their farewells-from the Cathedral, from the tower of the monastery, mocking...
...into the water and swam for an hour; Miss Ederle offered her a drink of chocolate. Miss Ederle ate some chicken. The band played Valencia. It was six o'clock and she could see the cliffs of Dover. She had been swimming for eleven hours. The water blackened fast. A squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face. No hope of making Folkstone now. For two hours the current would run against her; she could not expect to make progress. It would take all her strength to keep from being...
...simply. No "screen" or "color filter"* was needed on camera or projector. Fringes of color-bane of films made with filters by superimposing sets of negatives-were unknown. The only features of the invention described by correspondents were: 1) that the film had to be run twice as fast as a black and white film (i.e. 32 instead of 16 exposures per second); 2) that the negative film, after exposure, was stained alternately red and yellow. Witnesses reported that all colors of the spectrum were faithfully reproduced, delicately shaded even at the violet (short wave) end. The inventor, Herr Professor...