Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over the line would have been a dead German. Thus that crisis was solved, and little Eduard Benes was heard to observe that the machinery of a democratic state can work fast...
...Brooklyn rooters began to twist their score cards. No Dodger had succeeded in getting a hit. Even hard-boiled sportswriters screamed "Come on, kid!" as the seventh inning began with young Vander Meer walking two batters. But Vander Meer, revolving through his elaborate windup and mixing his dazzling fast ball and his baffling curve, got out of that tight spot. In the ninth, young Vander Meer walked three more Dodgers. A tense silence settled over the stands as Manager Bill McKechnie, a smart manager of pitchers, strode out to the box and whispered in Vander Meer's ear. Regaining...
Carrels & Lindberghs. The eight years that the Carrels and Lindberghs have known each other have made them fast friends. Colonel Lindbergh deeply admires Dr. Carrel, when in Manhattan follows him all around the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Carrel admires Colonel Lindbergh, declares him to be a great man. Dr. Carrel, as indicated by his philosophical Man the Unknown, does not think there are too many great men around...
Reason why planetaries are so shortlived: they are constantly and rapidly expanding, constantly dissipating. Some, thousands of light-years distant, grow and die so fast that before earthly astronomers see them, they have been dead and gone for centuries...
...goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...