Word: windedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last night Art Valpey called a halt to the Varsity's wind sprints, his squad headed for Dillon Field House, line Coach Butch Jordan shouted "Get a good night's sleep," and Harvard's preparations for Princeton were finished...
...conflict between Clift and Wayne complements the inevitable quality of the drive. Just as the trek up the Chisolm Trail must keep going, so the tension between Clift and Wayne cannot stagnate. As they wind their way across the Panhandle the two men become more and more distraught and their enmity breaks the surface when Wayne threatens to hang two deserters. Clift protects the men, turns against Wayne and takes over the herd, leaving his former partner behind...
...contribute two days of manual labor each semester to clearing away rubble and doing repair work. The winter term (which used to run until March) now starts earlier, stops at Christmas. With not enough coal to heat classrooms, students wear dyed Wehrmacht overcoats to cold-weather lectures; a chilling wind seeps through the cracks or whistles through the holes in bombed-out walls. (Windows are fixed with "Hitler glass," a kind of cellophane Hallstein acidly describes as "one of the big gifts this man gave to the German people.") The rector had planned to spend $250,000 this year...
Words never moved faster than they did last week in Washington. A "distinguished audience" in the Library of Congress hardly had time to gasp before the 457,000 words (1,047 pages) of Gone With the Wind were snatched out of the air from across the city by a gadget called "Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting...
Sarnoff did not say very much about just how long it takes to prepare the film for Ultrafax to transmit. It must have been a weary business to photograph Gone With the Wind, page by page.* Present methods of putting printed matter on film (and RCA mentioned no improvement) are still slow, compared with the speed Ultrafax can boast in transmission...