Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once there was a pudgy-faced newsboy on Chicago's West Side. His name was William Lorimer. His tactics were questionable but he moved fast-bootblack, sign painter, street car conductor, "boss" of Chi- cago Republicanism, banker, U. S. Senator. The higher he rose, the fatter he grew and the more crooked became his methods. In 1912 the Senate ejected him for having obtained his seat by bribery. In 1914 his La Salle Street Trust and Savings Bank crashed; seven years later he was put in jail because the Government found his banking schemes fraudulent...
Captain W. G. Dooley '30 of the Freshman team is expected to turn in a fast performance for the three mile course today as a result of his record-breaking run last week...
...match was not marked by fast play although Appleton and Rueter kept on the aggressive and forced the pace consistently. Whitbeck and Gordon showed their experience as a team by keeping the games well in hand and by winning in straight sets...
Gordon was the aggressor during most of the play, although Whitbeck stroked to his back-hand consistently. The points were evenly divided for each game up to deuce but Whitbeck generally proved his superiority by forcing the pace at critical moments. His strokes were accurate and fast throughout the final play of the University's largest tournament...
...time, I believe commercial aviation will be one of the greatest industries in the world. Transportation over the seas, especially, will be monopolized by airplanes. Even now a plane can travel four times as fast as the fastest boat, and this fact will always remain true. At present, it does not seem likely that the railroads will be supplanted; airplanes will merely supplement them by affording rapid transit for luxuries and perishable produce...