Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dislikes must not be permitted to dictate the foreign policy of the American people. The consideration of the economic structure of a nation petitioning for recognition has never before controlled America's foreign policy; it must not now prescribe our relations with Russia. If we are to remain stead fast to our policy of the past, the American policy first voiced by Jefferson, we must abandon our present unjustifiable stand and make recognition of Russia depend, not upon the internal structure she has chosen, but upon international relations between Russia and America
...rain-storm of Noah's time lasted about three days and the Ark might well have been built right here in Boston. But movements in the earth's crust are of such a gradual nature that even Dr. Getsinger's twelve thousand years from submersion to emergence is pretty fast work. Nature never hurries. But if we add yet another 30,000 years (a second cycle of the pole star) we should find that Pithecanthropus Erectus was posing in Java as the "father of us all" at about the time that "obviously and indubitably the ancients must have been infinitely...
...singles, he was called upon to meet some of the strongest players in the East, and was beaten only by Washburn of Chevy Chase, Howard of Princeton, and Sanders of Dartmouth, coming within two games of winning each of the last two matches. His playing was at all times fast and usually well-controlled, his biggest achievement coming last Saturday when he defeated Captain Williams of Yale after a hard-uphill contest...
...done if there were "only the time". Most men have to be satisfied with this excuse and resolve mentally each year to visit in" on several outside courses (inevitably abandoned after a few attempts), or to "read up" in prospective years of leisure after graduation. But the incentive vanishes fast and usually the resolutions are forgotten within two years...
...yard dash, even without the champion, will have four of last year's five place-winners and the time is bound to be fast. Even if Kirksey does compete, it is probable that Leconey of Lafayette will be the ruling favorite partly on account of Kirksey's injury and partly because of Leconey's perform-performances this year. Last season the finish between these two was so close that many spectators thought the Lafayette flyer had won and this year he has equalled ten flat twice and has captured one race in 9 7-10 seconds. While Leconey...