Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inability of the institutions to expand as fast as the numbers of those desiring to enter them is the most obvious reason for this first abating of the movement that has been the despair of educational leaders for the last decade. Yet this may not be the whole story. If the pressure remained the same, there are still many colleges in the country that could do with a greater abundance of students, and at Harvard each Freshman class outnumbers its predecessor in spite of the increasing rigor of entrance requirements...
...returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that he was fast approaching bankruptcy. A great deal of this embracing, sacrificial sympathy is visible in the self-portrait. A year after it was finished Rembrandt was financially ruined...
...Lily Christine's pink and black jacket is a subtitle mentioning good woman; on her title page in pink fast deflowering to purple she nevertheless promises "a romance." This for Michael Arlen of the onetime vogue is an amalgam so incongruous that one can but suspect him of a publicity trick. The suspicion is confirmed by the old sophisticated sentimentalities of style ill-matched to a heroine, beautiful though near-sighted and bespectacled, passionately devoted to her children though they visit the pages but once, loyal to a faithless husband though she begs one of her many admirers...
...University Squash Courts and team C will play the University Club on the same courts. The Freshman team meets the Boston Athletic Association on the courts of the B. A. A. Coach Cowles is optimistic about the outcome of all these matches, and made especial comment on the fast yearling outfit...
...Paris, the taxicab drivers are wild and rapacious; they drive fast and they frighten old ladies, by sneering, into paying them exorbitant prices. As a result they are not popular among women; one taxi-driver in Paris, a mild though bearded fellow, posted last week this notice on his cab: "Wanted: a wife. I want to marry. 1 own this cab. The girl must be well...