Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case has concerned M. Fedor Butenko, one of the New Bolsheviks who are being spectacularly advanced in the Soviet Union by Dictator Stalin to replace the liquidated Old Bolsheviks. Since Stalin's purge has been mowing down Soviet diplomats right & left, the Moscow diplomatic school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house for New Bolshevik talent, Russia's Proletarian Writer Fedor Butenko was put with such speed that two months ago, only two years after he matriculated, he was in full command of the Soviet legation...
Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...
...Three members of Temple University's basketball team are six feet five or taller, one is six feet four, and the other, Howard ("Shorty") Black, almost six feet two. In Manhattan last week the Templars were not only too tall but too fast for Colorado University, whose team they defeated, 60-to-36, in the final game of a tourney which metropolitan basketball writers hope to develop as an annual "basketball world series" (TIME, March...
...joined the U. S. Army Air Corps Reserve, rose to the rank of major. In 1931 he organized his own company at Farmingdale, L. I., of which he is president, chief designer and test pilot. Many a Seversky design has been derided, but his planes in the air are fast, radical, practical, and he is producing them at the almost unequaled rate...
...Elusive, fast, but powerful, the Cambridge aggregation was very impressive in their win over Yale and apparently expects to repeat their 40-19 trouncing of the Crimson, which they made in their last encounter...