Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shall hold fast...
...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...
...settled down after the opening burst of speed to a beat of 30 which was maintained up to the three mile mark. From this point on, Captain John Watts '28 lifted the stroke to 35, quickening it gradually to 38, and as the shell neared the finish to a fast sprinting...
...humans wriggled into the openings, became corpuscles of the boa. It hissed a little, rolled on over the body of George Hicks, and into a dark hole. George Hicks rose, unhurt, and made for the platform. Again a boa with two small red eyes came toward him, too fast. Again George Hicks salaamed snugly against the dirty groove between two rails. The second, and then a third beast swiftly passed over him, stopped, filled itself with people, slithered away. At last George Hicks clambered to the subway platform, pulled himself up quickly. He sighed pleasantly, noting that only a scratch...
...need not be particularly incensed with Mr. Paddock. He is probably no better and no worse than the system which produced and exploits him. He is unfit to represent the sportsmen of the United States, and he should not go to Amsterdam ; but obviously he will-if fast enough in his trials...