Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...actually trying out a new type of war machine which we must organize the personnel. No pains are being spared to enable troops to achieve maximum results with minimum loss. But we must not forget we are still in a period of adaptation. Reinforcements which are arriving fast are relieving the units hard-pressed since the beginning...
...Harvard horsemen have also undoubtedly benefited from the past week's workouts. In practice games they have shown greater speed than at any time during the season, and are now considered on a par with the fast Army riders, who won a 19-0 victory over Virginia Military Institute last Saturday, and who had been picked as Yale's probable opponent in the finals, before the tournament began, in spite of the fact that Harvard defeated them in the West Point riding ring last winter...
...Manhattan, a young woman was crossing a street, right foot, left foot, across asphalt sticky with heat. Turned a traffic signal, charged down on her two lines of motors. Alarmed, she stood still. Her heels sank into the tar, were held fast. She gave a lurch. Her foot came from her slipper. She put her steaming foot back into her slipper, wrenched once more, and once more it slipped out, causing her to lose her balance, plunge her foot into the tar which gripped her stocking as she wrestled, dragged it half off. For a moment she balanced, storklike...
...been teacing night school ran temporarily out of funds and I could not collect my salary. I had purchased a supply of paper for a printing job which failed me, and a late spring kept snow on the ground so that carfares ate up my earnings as fast as I received them. One morning, as I went to classes, I spent my last cent on carfare. I wore two rubbers for the left foot, and the world looked gloomy indeed. To make matters worse, the mail man passed me a note from the Dean asking me to call...
...covering the four mile course in a time reported to be 20 minutes and 40 seconds last Tuesday night is the best performance of the year on the Thames, and approaches within a few seconds of the record for the course made by the Harvard 1920 crew. Remarkably fast conditions prevailed Tuesday night, however, and Coach Haines' had predicted that the Elis would make between 20 minutes and 40 seconds and 20 minutes and 55 seconds before the Blue shell even started up the river. If conditions are anywhere near equal tomorrow, it is confidently expected by the coaches here...