Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money came in fast. Felix Warburg gave $400,000, Herbert Lehman, Mrs. S. W. Straus, Mortimer Schiff gave $50,000 each; Louis Marshall, William Fox, Benjamin Winter made big contributions, and a disabled veteran sent $28 (government allowance for war wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling...
...fast game yesterday afternoon, the Crimson Seconds held the University batsmen to a 4 to 2 score. Ellis on the slab for the Seconds pitched a good game...
...persons thought that American boys should throw the javelin extremely well because they are such wonderful baseball players. That is all wrong. They are on the wrong road. Javelin throwing is altogether different. Baseball requires fewer muscles than the javelin. The surprising thing is that American athletes improve so fast at the javelin...
...number of my friends who are really doing things. Take for instance the one who is leading people all around the world that they may become well rounded citizens of Worcester or Back Bay or even New York, or another who is writing books so fast that someone is going to buy one before he knows it, though I don't quite see how. For really I have a lot of faith in human nature. Just when you think that there is no hope and that everything is going wrong, someone does some such positively assinine thing that your faith...
...winners to three hits while the Crimson attack was collecting four safe blows. Both pinchers were handicapped by the wet ball and slippery footing on the mound, but the rival hitters were even more seriously held down by the poor light which made it difficult to watch the fast breaking curves offered by both pitchers...