Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those who live beyond the reach of fast surface mail get their copies of TIME Canadian each week by air-so that they can read the news while it is still fresh. For instance, eight copies go via Canadian Pacific Air Lines to subscribers in Aklavik above the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories near the Beaufort Sea, where Subscriber J. C. Callaghan claims that not even good radio contact can be guaranteed. Other copies are flown to subscribers like George Pinsky at Fort Resolution on Great Slave Lake in the District of Mackenzie, across the lake to Gordon...
...time Bradley had finished, Senate opposition to the pact was dwindling fast. All week long the committeemen were urged to speed its ratification by a whole parade of witnesses: former Under Secretaries of State Will Clayton and Robert Lovett, the Republicans' John Foster Dulles, former Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, Senator Robert Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft, former head of the Federal Council of Churches...
...appeasing the Nationalists. He went on a diet of fruit juice and unsweetened tea. His protest was in vain. This week van Suchtelen read the news of the government's agreement with the "rebels." This cup of tea was too bitter for him; discouraged, he broke his fast...
...only does this give the shell a long, fast run between strokes, but it lets the crew pause before the catch rather than at the end of the pull, thereby reducing the possibility of catching a crab...
However, shortly before the race, Coach Bolles will go over the course (with his coxswain if it is a strange river) and analyze weather conditions to determine whether the time that afternoon will be fast or slow. He then talks things over briefly with his stroke. There is not much to say, because the pattern for the race seldom varies from a pre-established form...