Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many beginners are under the illusion that waxing is just for experts who want their skis to glide exceptionally fast and that they can learn much better on slow skis. This is wrong as one has much better control over a fast gliding ski and besides a ski that is not properly waxed will run unevenly in jerks, which makes it much harder to maintain one's balance. A good waxing job, while gliding smoothly downhill, will "bite" on walking uphill, thus preventing to some extent back-sliding and saving considerable energy...
Centering the third line will be Joe Patrick, sophomore and a new-comer to Crimson hockey, who is a tricky, but not too fast, skater. The veteran John Callaway will hold down the left wing position while Freddie deRahm, another Sophomore, will team with him from the right...
...take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
...fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally deciding to divert Horner from his wife by taking him his sister. Mrs. Pinchwife (Ruth Gordon), however, learns city ways so fast that it is she, bundled up and masked, who is escorted to Mr. Homer's chambers where the play soon reaches a logical conclusion...
...Ward's acquired this necessity from U. S. Gypsum Co. in the person of Sewell Lee Avery. Spiegel's found it in the family. Modie Joseph Spiegel Jr., ten years out of Dartmouth, had been making money in the apparel department when most other departments were falling fast. Big, jovial Board Chairman "M. J. Sr." gave him the job of general manager...