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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve Russian "students" yesterday continued their frenetic tour of Cambridge, as they met with the Deans, attended conferences and toured the College area. "The tempo in the United States is very fast," group leader Nikolai Voshchinin commented at the news conference, and the group's pace certainly proved his statement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Visitors Tour University, Discuss Further Exchange Plans | 10/30/1959 | See Source »

Outside of the latter rather sticky item, The Captain From Koepenick is highly entertaining, and in a few of the comic scenes, positively brilliant. Helmut Kautner's comic direction is perceptive and lightning fast. His sausage-filled officials are overdone perfectly, and his other minor characters dodge in and out of the story with potent effect. And of course, throughout, there is Heinz Ruhmann's performance, which alone makes The Captain From Koepenick eminently worth seeing...

Author: By Peter E. Quint, | Title: The Captain From Koepenick | 10/27/1959 | See Source »

...hates most is "the new age, the age of the galoot, the fast buck, the something-for-nothing crowd," and he goes out of his way to give every phony he sees a piece of his sharp mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 26, 1959 | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

...than usual by shading them with opaque cloth for part of each day. Guess was that something in the plant's internal mechanism recorded the smaller amount of sunlight, signaled the plant that the days had shortened, that colder weather was approaching, and that it had better flower fast. But botanists were unable to identify the day-measuring mechanism or explain how it worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Toward Control of Growth | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Last week he was busy filling orders for 15 ore carriers, bulk carriers, tankers and escort vessels for U.S. companies and the German navy. His ultramodern yard sends ships down the ways so fast that Schlieker does not even bother to take down tents and grandstands used for launching ceremonies. The 300,000-sq.-ft. yard has the biggest (capacity: 100,000 tons) drydock in Europe, an optical tracing device that projects cutting patterns on steel plates. Overseeing all is an electronic brain named "Big Brother" that tells Schlieker which machines have not worked at full capacity and why. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wily Willy | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

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