Word: faste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something was wrong, but did not discover until after the match that her opponent was left-handed.-Her "Poker Face" ("a point I have never before discussed") is due to concentration rather than, as popularly supposed, lack of emotion.-When they pinned the Phi Beta Kappa key over her fast-beating heart she experienced one of the happiest moments of her life.-All players who have turned professional she mentions in the pluperfect tense.-And though she declares Jean Borotra well-named the "Bounding Basque," Betty Nuthall one of the best liked visitors we ever had, Señorita...
...Junior University crew, granted a two-length lead at the temporary bridge, started off at a fast clip that kept it in front of the first eight, stroked by Captain John Watts '28, for a half-mile. At the Harvard Bridge, one of the Junior oarsmen caught a crab and the boat paced by James Lawrence '29 dropped three quarters of a length...
...good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth, and Roll of Colgate. All were in the finals of last year's Intercollegiates and all are fast...
...draw some comfort from the very fact that caused his withdrawal, however, for Smith's victory shows that opposition to the party's only hope is fast receding. Anti-Catholics, drys, and anti-Tammany men alike cannot but admit that no one of their candidates would have the ghost of a show in a nation-wide contest with Smith, and the policy of backing the winner is claiming more and more of them as the Smith delegates pile up. Hoover, to be sure, is making even greater inroads into the strength of the various "favorite sons...
...Southern California has another fast man and Stanford also can boast of at least one sprinter who has broken ten seconds, but I look to the East to furnish Borah's opposition or at least to supply the other scores in the short events...