Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mail-order business grew so fast that within a few months he had filled his basement with books to be mailed. When his wife protested that she hadn't enough room to do the washing, he moved his Webster Publishing Co. (named after Noah and Daniel) to two rat-infested rooms on the riverfront. Within three years, Webster's sales amounted to $102,000. By 1928, they had doubled. By 1931, W.P. had another idea...
Thanks to Comedienne Channing's song numbers and to some fast, youthful Agnes de Mille dance routines, the show achieves an air of liveliness in places. What it never achieves is any real feeling of the '20s, or the right nostalgia for them...
...Communism. Last week, at Buck Hill Falls, Pa., Methodists assembled for the tenth annual meeting of their Board of Missions and Church Extension. Some of what they heard was cheering: Chinese Communists were treating missionaries better than had been expected and the church in the U.S. was growing fast enough to put up a new church building every...
Said Whitaker & Baxter: "The first skirmishes were ended and won. Unfortunately, the war was not." These first skirmishes had been paid for out of $2,250,000 raised from voluntary $25 assessments, which 75% of the A.M.A.'s active, assessable members had paid. The money was running out fast. To pay for the decisive engagement which the A.M.A.'s top brass expects in 1950, conscript dollars were needed. The house of delegates ruled that any doctor who falls 13 months behind in dues would forfeit membership...
Georgetown's attack was led by a pair of fast forwards, Tommy O'Keefe and John Brown. The Hoyas played a tight defense, and held the quintet to the lowest score it has made so far this year. The Varsity Summary: G F P Gabler 1 1 3 Crosby 4 0 8 Rockwell 3 2 8 Smith 4 2 10 Stevenson 0 1 1 Prior 2 1 5 Hickey 2 0 4 Covey 2 1 5 Murphy 2 1 5 Stiles...