Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Combining the fundamental elements of football, basketball, and soccer, a new game, speedball, is being added to the University's intramural sports this spring in an effort to offer a fast, open game attractive to men who are not interested in the more intricate sports which require arduous training...
Seeing her husband thus at peace, Madame La Maréchale, frugal, set off to market, taking along her cook to carry the market bag. Then for a time there was no one in the house but "Papa" Joffre, so fast asleep that he did not hear light steps on the porch, the creak of the front door which Madame La Maréchale had accidentally left unlocked, or stealthy footfalls which soon indicated that someone was prowling all over the house. Surely it could be no sneakthief. Who would steal from lovable, heroic "Papa" Joffre, who saved Paris...
Clive's mother, Monica Wilmott, with her golden hair twisted about her head "was like a falcon, a jar of honey, a spray of rosemary." Victorian at heart, she had, years before, rebelled against the fast vulgarity of the military set in India-but since her husband's death she had supported herself and her son: the office, the antique shop, the millinery establishment had made her something of a modern...
Both J. R. Mooney '31 and G. N. Burns '30 held on to their titles, though neither had an easy time of it. Mooney in the 115-pound class was pushed to the limit by Crispin Cooke '32, who won the first round easily by fast rushing. Mooney gained as the match went on, however, had Cooke dizzy in the second period and edged him out with hard blows in the final round. In the 145-pound group, Burns met stiff oppositions in W. P. Wadsworth '29 and won only by tiring him with heavy body shots...
Closest of all was the 50-yard free style event. In one of the four sheats the fast time of 26.2 seconds was turned in; while in the finals not more than a foot separated the first three men, W. S. Meany 1L, H. de W. Wood '30, and Stanley Harris...