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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...black man's paper Inkundhla ya Bantu warned: "The old generation of Africans who believed in resolutions, deputations, petitions and peaceful conciliations is fast dying out . . . There is growing among . . . African youth a spirit of almost uncontrollable anti-whiteism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Black Man's Burden | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...public, forever hopeful of finding a cure for the common cold, was eagerly buying newfangled pills last week. The drugs, heretofore available only on a doctor's prescription, were selling over drug counters as fast and freely as bubble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Over the Counter | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Deplorable. Loudest and lustiest of all is the fast-growing Sunday Pictorial, edited by 36-year-old Hugh Cudlipp, younger brother of Editor Percy Cudlipp of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mirrors of Life | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson rugby squad held a fast and powerful McGill squad to a 3 to 3 tie yesterday afternoon in Montreal's Molson Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Team Ties McGill at Montreal 3-3 | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...several weeks now this scribe has witnessed fast backs, punishing tackles, aggressive ends, and triple-threat men battle in high school football games. The experience has left him with the conviction that many of these teams could fight Harvard to a scoreless first half (weight and Howard Houston might tell in the end). Certainly several of these teams could run riot over the incumbent freshman aggregation...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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