Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yesterday's session was brief but fast. After some practice at shooting goals and a few minutes of line-passing, the University skaters engaged the Freshmen in a 15-minute scrimmage...
Commenting on the proposed conference, at which an attendance of approximately 20 is expected, Coach E. Wachter of Harvard declared, "The duty of a good official is to keep the game fast, clean, and under control. By that I do not mean that it should be a game of indoor football; but a great many officials have been too strict in handling a game. At present many games are being won from the foul line instead of from the floor. A uniform type of official who will speed up the action is needed; and I believe that the meeting...
Thus far the work-out for battery candidates has been very light. No fast balls are being thrown but the practice has been chiefly a warming up period...
Surely hostile will be the Pennsylvania, which only last year bought control of the Wabash and might well object to relinquishing this major line (2,400 miles). The Pennsylvania is also understood to be sympathetic with the ambitions of Charles Farrand Taplin, who is trying to put together a fast coal route from Toledo to the Atlantic and all of whose prospective roads (particularly the Western Maryland) are included in the B. & O. plan. The Pennsylvania, affluent, central, well satisfied with existing conditions, has no more reason to applaud new consolidations than Great Britain had reason to applaud Napoleon...
...seemed likely to mark the end of Byrd explorations by air this year in Antarctica. Ice floes were closing in at the approach of antarctic winter. Last week the supply ship Eleanor Bolling was hurrying from New Zealand to succor the base bark City of New York in the fast-packing Bay of Whales...