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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the cabs started to roll. Denny Lewis, John L.'s little brother and boss of District 50, told the boys to hold fast, that U.M.W.'s $14 million treasury was behind them, but the strikers found out they couldn't get a dime for a cuppa cawfee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: More Skull than Brains | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...steel-strong walls. There seemed to be an upper limit to speed. As airplanes flew faster & faster, strange things had happened to them. Hard, unseen fists punctured their metal skins. Mysterious arms reached out of the air to wrestle with their controls. Sometimes a wartime fighter pilot, diving too fast in combat, would feel his stick freeze fast. No matter how he tried, he could not pull out of the dive. Sometimes he did not live to tell the tale. Sometimes the demon let go just in time, and the shaken pilot got back to his base to describe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when I had Charlie in the third grade, he was a little slow. I never dreamed he would grow up to be traveling around the country so fast. He used to sit in school daydreaming, and I always suspected he had his fishing pole hidden out back somewheres." In high school Chuck speeded up some. Miss Gonza Methel, a teacher, remembers him as "one of the best geometry students I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...fast riding and hard shooting, El Paso leaves a mildly unpleasant aftertaste. Its muddled moralizing on civil rights, sandwiched into its brutal, juicily detailed lynchings, makes an unappetizing dish. By contrast, the Cinecolor is fairly sweet and clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...than bush-bearded, 42-year-old Englishman William Empson, who now lives by choice in Peiping. For years Empson's work has been admired by people who would put their minds on it, and either ignored or jeered at by a greater number who gave it a fast superficial reading. The first U.S. publication of his collected poems means that the first party may be making a little headway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coping With the Flood | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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