Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Progress. The world moves fast. One has almost forgotten that the Atlantic has already been conquered by the airship. Yet it was as early as July 2, 1919, that the British R-34 crossed the ocean to land at Mineola, L. I. The R-34 started from East Fortune Airdrome, Edinburgh, Scotland, covered the shortest route over the North Atlantic, took 108 hours to sail 3,200 miles. At times, she scarcely made 25 m.p.h.; 500 miles from shore her gas was almost gone; the motors had to be nursed; the famous call "Rush Help" startled and alarmed the world...
However Worcester Academy has a powerful eleven and the result should rest largely in the ability of the Freshmen to stop Worcester's fast backs, a task which the Brown Freshmen and Cushing Academy found somewhat difficult. Worcester has not been scored on this year, and has run up high scores against all her opponents. Her regular men are all in condition to play and she is determined to keep her goal line uncrossed...
With the Union Tennis Tournament fast approaching its conclusion, three of the seeded players have already won their way into the semi-finals...
...Dunker '25, President of the Student Council, declared that he was strongly in favor of the new faculty ruling, as was the whole Student council. Dunker said that last year's Student Council had brought forward the fast that the inequality of the probation periods made probation an unjust bounden to men who failed at the November hours, since it is 13 weeks to the mid-year examinations, while men who go a probation at the mid-year examinations may regain their good standing after a six-week period at the April hour examinations. This system places too much emphasis...
...spite of the fact that tickets were being given out as fast as the applicants could be taken care of, the line kept growing larger and larger, and at 10.30 o'clock, when the word went around that all the tickets were gone, the crowd reached nearly to Mt. Auburn Street, and numbered more over...