Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fast mile relay team runs with Yale and Princeton at 10:40 o'clock. Al Banlon leads off, Hobart Lerner and Tudor Richards running two and three, with Jim Lightbody on the anchor...
...sickbed where he had lain for 18 days ailing of influenza, and for the first time learned some-thing that all the rest of his diocese knew. Very Rev. Israel Harding Noe, dean of St. Mary's Cathedral in Memphis, was entering the third week of a fast which he hoped would prove that "the soul is above the need of material life" (TIME...
...that convention, no weekday services were held in the Cathedral, and for the first time ousted Dean Noe went for a week without the communion bread & wine which had previously solaced, and partially nourished, him. Some 30 members of the parish were reported anxious to join him in his fast, but he attempted to discourage them. At week's end the gaunt, feverish-eyed dean gave the 15-minute religious talk he has been accustomed to deliver on the radio, but so sickly did he look that the Memphis station installed a microphone in the deanery, persuaded...
...Sunday, Dean Noe sat in a pew in the Cathedral whose pulpit he had occupied for 17 years, while a sermon criticizing such "vagaries" as his 22-day fast was preached by Rev. Royden Keith Yerkes of the University of the South (Sewanee, Tenn.). That night the Dean collapsed, was taken to a hospital where Memphis specialists, who had been waiting a week for such an emergency, attempted to save his life with forced feeding...
...announced he would also run the mile. But Lash did not prove to be the iron man for he was far behind at the end of race. The first half was slow, and Cunningham had plenty of strength to send him out ahead at the finish. The finish was fast, but the time, 4:13.8, two seconds slower than his time last year...