Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relationship has been a process of mutual give-and-take; the student, straining in attention, lends his ears, while the lecturer spends freely of his hard-earned store. Now that the sanctity of our three hundred years lies officially upon us, now that the day of the greats is fast drawing to a close, this relationship may truly be said to have ripened into a mellow reality...
That news spread so fast through Veracruz that the next afternoon found 15,000 Catholics swarming menacingly in Orizaba, routing guards and forcing their way into the city's 14 closed churches, frantically ringing bells that had been silent for a decade. Hastily the city authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall...
Vronsky & Babin play more than properly. Their frighteningly fast passages in Rachmaninoff never sound muddled. Babin's arrangement of the Polovetzkian Dances from Borodin's Prince Igor is brilliant and vital...
...even sniffed doubts of its legitimacy. What with Sophie's suspicious enmity and Franz Joseph's fond indulgence, it would have been a miracle if Sisi had turned out to be a model wife and mother. No miracle occurred. Left to her own devices, she smoked (very fast for those days), rode horseback till patient Franzi grumbled: "If only you had never seen a saddle!", exercised and dieted herself into an alarming slimness. And one day she told Franz Joseph she simply had to go away. Hurt but anxious, he let her go. After that she hardly came...
...Southerners. The result of the meet probably hinges on these two matches; for if the Crimson loses both or even one their cause will be dark indeed. Alf has knocked out his only opponent this year, has an undefeated record for his few bouts. He has improved fast this year after being out all last season with a broken hand. Another Senior, Johnny Brassill, who will be boxing for the first time this season, faces Marion Brooks, whose only defeat so far this year was in the Maryland meet; and the winner of that bout was no less a boxer...