Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bruins may disconcert the Crimson five tonight with their fast-breaking game, but if Harvard recovers as quickly as it did from the famous Yale zone defence system there is little to fear...
With broad-shouldered Planter Ames, a patriarchal figure in mustard corduroy, at the head of the procession, the championship week began with a fast heat by Yankee Doodle Jack, and a hot favorite, the orange-spotted pointer, Doctor Blue Willing. The latter stayed in hand better than on two other championship occasions and, as a local sports writer put it, "he handled his birds like a Ziegfeld beauty handles a millionaire." Tips Manitoba Jake, the big, white-&-black pointer owned by Golfer Glenna Collett Vare (see p. 27), ran the next heat worthy of notice. He, too, had the morning...
Butler still sells an enormous volume to independent stores. One reason it has been able to hold its jobbing ground is that it never hesitated to handle low-priced goods, which sell fast and easily. Butler's fellow Chicago wholesaler, Marshall Field & Co., stuck exclusively to quality, finally abandoned jobbing entirely (TIME, Dec. 9). Not until last week, however, was it known what a miserable failure Marshall Field's jobbing activities had actually been. In reporting 1935 profits of $199,000 for Marshall Field as a whole. Chairman James O. McKinsey revealed that the wholesale division had lost...
...price which was twice the value of the assets behind them. Assumption was that any banker worth the name could, in a trice, make at least 100% on money entrusted to his care. When it was belatedly discovered that banker-managed investment trusts could lose money just as fast as any individual investor, a terrific public revulsion occurred. One result was the quick growth in the first years of Depression of the so-called fixed trust, an institution in which securities were bought & sold by an inflexible formula. In its early form the fixed trust offered a virtual guarantee that...
Then while the Penn State 3200-meter relay team was winning that event in the not too fast time of four seconds under eight minutes, the Harvard Quartet was being snowed under by teams from Boston College, Manhattan, and N.Y.U...