Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, meantime, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, privately grateful to the late Senator Huey Long and Comptroller General John R. McCarl, was preparing to drop his hot potatoes as fast as he could. Senator Long had filibustered to death the Third Deficiency Bill containing an appropriation for enforcement of potato control (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Secretary Wallace announced without apparent regret that Comptroller McCarl was unwilling to let AAA draw enforcement funds from other sources. "I found," smiled the Secretary, "that funds just didn't seem to be there. That may not sound very logical but that...
...first along the centre line of the pit; by the time the edges have reached maximum heat, the centre line, along which the performer walks, has begun to cool. In an expose of Oriental magic, Professional Magician John Mulholland declared that the trick is done either by stepping on fast-cooling lava fragments or by applying "heat-resisting chemicals" to the soles. Some primitives who specialize in firewalking have enormously thick, tough soles which provide at least partial protection...
...their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series a runaway for Norna. Expertly sailed, marvelously fast against the wind, she nosed out Challenge in the first two races. The Committee had a case of champagne put on ice the next afternoon, so that when Skipper Konow got his Cup he would not be disappointed...
...narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast as any boy in his teens ever did.) His pious father could not abide him. (I was the first Rounsevell ever to drink, curse and play cards.} From an Irish grandfather he acquired "a sense of humor, a taste for good liquor, a go-to-hell attitude...
...faults in the American educational system is the hard and fast division between the various stages in a man's training. From grammar to high or preparatory school is in itself a jump; that from high school to college even more pronounced, and with harmful effects on the adjacent years in both; while that from college to law school is at present literally a step from one world to another. A development in education that promises to be interesting will be the gradual fusing of these three phases into one another...