Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowdy-dows won football contests for $5 per. All-around athletes who could hardly read a newspaper were put through college at the expense of the Alumni Association and given high grades in English and Sacred Studies. When the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association was formed, such chicanery was already fast vanishing. Last week, with the deepest humiliation, Yale University notified Harvard that there could be no freshman crew race this year. Six members of the Yale freshman eight had cheated in examinations at their training quarters at Gales Ferry, Conn.† They had taken no precautions, their papers were...
...vague but blasting left hand that has sent better men than he to sleep. It was the referee's frequent and unpleasant duty to pull the two wrestlers apart and insist that they box. Only in the seventh to the ninth round did Stribling look anything like the fast-stepping, hard-hitting leather-pusher that he was when he qualified as a challenger. Critics eyeing his flabby lethargy toward the end of the encounter muttered: "Overtrained!" None disputed the decision given Berlenbach, even in newspapers of Stribling's native Georgia...
...Virginny Bland-Laus Rumanian Rhapsody Euesco Dance of the Priestesses of Dagon, from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Boston Saxophone Orchestra a. The Lost Chord Sullivan-Laus b. Hawaiian Waltz, "Kilama Wai-lana" Lua-Kaili c. Indian Love Lyric, "Temple Bells" Finden d. Fast asleep in Poppyland (Chinese Story) Gay Ballet of the Hours, from La Gio-conda" Ponchielli Prelude No. 6 Chopin-Jacchia Indian War Dance Skilton
Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England...
...opening frame, Booth threw wildly in fielding Edes' lunt the Boar right fielder, taking second. A balk advanced him to the far corner, and Ruchstall's hit through short stop sent him over. The other Brown run came in the seventh when Guerney caught one of Booth's fast balls and sent it deep into center field. Burns hooted the ball before picking it up, and the runner made the circuit on the combined hit and messy fielding...