Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Riot Act, which provides that any assemblage that hears this act read to them must disperse within an hour or be liable to arrest. Sheriff Nimmo, a fox-faced man in spectacles, read in a loud voice. The crowd began to move away; some did not move fast enough, were stimulated with prodding clubs. Men began to hurry, fell over one another; women screamed; a squad of motorcycle police cleared...
...management of an English college seems, to an American, characterized by absence of system, of hard and fast rule. Discipline, where required, is administered by admonition, by persuasion or pressure, to suit the individual case. And with respect to instruction and education, the personal element predominates, especially in the training of undergraduates who are reading for honors. In most English university colleges there are two classes of students, the "honors" men and "pass" men. Here again, a reasonable elasticity, a recognition of the personal inclinations, needs, and capacities of the undergraduate, is the governing principle...
...University nine started fast and played smooth ball until Booth got in a hole in the seventh, when errors in judgment allowed the visitors to chase over their first counter. The Crimson batters touched the Rhode Island pitcher for 12 hits while Booth was holding the losing artillery to seven blows, six of which were bunched in the last two sessions...
...common agreement [TIME, March 29] the Germans and ourselves hold fast to Locarno. We are resolved to maintain the agreement and maintain its spirit. The danger that that newly begun work of reconciliation should be interrupted or broken down has been averted...
...Fast and furious then grew the fun inside. The boxes continued to 'put it' to the players in the form of lemons. The serious parts were hampered by the unpicturesque necessity of ducking; the sentimental parts were derided and almost laughed out of countenance...