Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Basketball is the traditional sport at Rhode Island where practice has been under way all fall. Frank Keaney's teams play hard ball, using a man to man defense and employing the fast break. This is the type of competition with which the Crimson will be faced in most of the major games...
...come to defend American shores. With a coast line of some three thousand miles and a comparatively small standing army, the United States could do worse than make friends with the more powerful nations to the South. America looms great as a world-power today, but with the stead-fast backing of Latin-America she would be, not seem, invincible. And though the present conference be limited to peace and its preservation, no firmer bonds exist in time of war than mutual cultural and economic interests. These are being cemented today at Buenos Aires. The eyes and attention of America...
...Boswell and Johnson at it again. To bore you with extended criticism of style and manner of these two fast friends would be both vain and presumptuous, and we shall politely conclude that overworked angle with: "So much has been said on both sides, and so well, that we have nothing more...
...have reached her level. In addition to the train wrecks and the counterfeit detective there are all sorts of tangles involving very much alive villains listed as dead, pseudo-charitable organizations, and bogus priests. But Mr. Lowe unravels them all most admirably, and he explains his deductions so fast that no one is tempted to ask questions. Only we might have suggested to him that he investigate a couple of shots that almost cut short the career of himself and his companion, rather that finding clues in the pictures hanging in the London Gildhall...
...airplane cockpit and the driver's seat of an automobile. "You have come for a test?" he asks. "I don't know," I reply. Without more encouragement he ushers me to the seat and bids me grasp the wheel. "When you see the red light, apply the brakes as fast as you can." The red light flashes on the board above me, and quickly I press the brake pedal. "How was that!" I exult. "Terrible! It took you one second. Your car would have gone 88 feet before the brakes took hold; the average is half that." I swallow...