Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excursion trains, while fast, were not limited: also, only day coaches were included. But the hardships of riding, sleeping, eating and washing under these conditions were cheerfully borne by the $10 depositors. Leaving New York Saturday night, the train arrived in Montreal the next morning; the return trip started that night and concluded Monday morning in Grand Central...
British Open. A snowy ball hung in the air over the second green of the Prestwick golf links, Scotland. From the sea close by, blew what a Scotsman would call "a bit breeze," an American a "stout wind." Truly hit, the ball never wavered. It dropped on the dry, fast turf, leaped toward the hole, disappeared from the view of the thousands of spectators that jostled in the rough and back of the bunkers. Picking his way from the tee, his mashie still in his hand, J. H. Taylor, five times (1894, '95, 1900, '09, '13) British Open Champion, came...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...startling as a shout, smote Amundsen's ear. N-25's engine had died. The pilot, Riiser-Larsen, now must land wherever he could. God help him ! He made the water, but not the main "lead." The plane torpedoed into a hummock, quivered and lay still, stuck fast...
Round and round the track for eight days roared the automobiles. Sixteen broke down, but Prince Carol was one of the seven that finished. So fast had been the race that the Rumanian judge "was unable to decide who had won." It was said that the Prince had a good chance of being declared the winner...