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Word: fasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor of better swimming facilities was the feature of the answer to the question. "What advantages do you think you ought to have found at Harvard which you have failed to find?" One facetious Senior wails. "I shouldn't have flunked out," while another replies. "Exclusive use of a fast roadster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Favor Tennis and Golf Over Football--Swimming Also Popular--Republicans Have 72 Per Cent Following | 5/6/1925 | See Source »

Recently, I have been traveling a good deal on trains, and watching the books men read in the smoking cars. On a fast train to the West the other day, I noted The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye-Smith, A Room with a View (pocket edition) by E. M. Forster, The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy, The Reckless Lady by Philip Gibbs "and a book called After All, whose author I could not discover. From this odd group I shall attempt no generalizations. Certainly a higher class of novel than one would expect. On the train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Precis Grotesques* | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

Chickie. So fast do the new cinema actresses come that even the professional observer must struggle to keep them straight. Dorothy Mackaill is the latest to scatter her charms convincingly across the greater part of a picture. She is not exactly new-but she is just becoming recognized. Beyond the beauty parlor attributes, she possesses humor and imagination. Whether she has the irresistible something that makes the great popular heroines is difficult to say. Yet any picture in which she plays can't be entirely bad. Chickie is a fair example. She is a young stenographer who quarrels with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 4, 1925 | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

...University defeats came in the last two encounters of the trip. Georgetown, on Friday, got, away to a fast start and overwhelmed the Crimson by 15 to 3. The pitching situation in this game was difficult as neither Spalding nor Toulmin could work and the responsibility was given to Andrews and Cordingley, who seemed unable to resist the Georgetown onslaught. The last game with Columbia was probably the best of the trip although the Blue eked out a 7 to 6 win in the final inning by overcoming a two run Harvard lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TEAMS LOSE ONLY THREE TIMES | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

...members of his University track team journeyed to Philadelphia on April 24 and 25 to participate in the annual Pennsylvania relays on Franklin Field. The four mile relay team which was the Crimson's principal hope did not make an impressive showing, trailing fifth in a fairly fast field, and no individual entrants were successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TEAMS LOSE ONLY THREE TIMES | 4/27/1925 | See Source »

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