Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days immediately preceding Christmas. We caution the faithful against such parties for the following reasons: 1) these parties ignore the sacred character of Advent, which is a time of becoming preparation for the coming of our divine Savior; 2) the days immediately preceding Christmas are invariably days of fast and abstinence . . .; 3) at many of these parties there is excessive use of intoxicating drinks. These sinful excesses cause untold harm in various ways to the participants and their families. They corrupt the morals and lower the morale of the community and the nation...
Last week calls for help had come in from a town in Utah and another in Montana. MacConnell was looking forward to sending his first teams outside the state. "We're sure other universities will take up our idea if we don't move fast," says he. "We want to get there fustest with the mostest...
When the climax comes, another electronic assistant, the Sperry A1C radar gunsight, will help the pilot hit the enemy. Jet fighters move so fast that the pilot has only a few seconds for firing, and human eyes and brains cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will...
Businessmen might be pessimistic about the future, but Wall Street took a cheerful view. Day after President Truman's mobilization speech last week, the market started out at a fast clip, with textiles and such war stocks as Grumman, Lockheed and Boeing leading the parade. In the short, half-day session, 2,020,000 shares were traded and both the rail averages and Dow-Jones industrials scooted up. Reason for the rise: after all the grim advance notices, the President wasn't nearly as tough about controls and cuts in civilian production as Wall Street had expected. Furthermore...
...mischievous little girls of Hydesville, N.Y., thought up a way to mystify their ma. In bed at night they tied an apple to a string and bumped it loudly on the floor. Hearing the sonorous raps, Mrs. Fox climbed upstairs to investigate, and of course found both children apparently fast asleep. Cried puzzled Mother Fox: "Is this a disembodied spirit that has taken possession of my dear children...