Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story, I wanted to see a game. And I did. Two hours at Baker Field. Cambridge v. All-East (U.S.). Unremitting torrential rain. I now have a beautiful cold, so have my wife and child. A game I was not sure I grasped. But I loved it. It was fast, hard, rough, exciting, interesting, sporting, human...
...would like to predict a great growing rugby enthusiasm in this country over the next few years. The spectators will see a fast, human, sporting game without the unnecessary trappings...
...last B.A.A. marathon proved a lot. It proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...
Professor Pereda (TIME. April 9, p. 18), during his seven-day fast, did not go home to bed-he remained at the Plaza night and day. And he did not shrill at the woman from the U. S. when he said: "You damned woman...
Editor Sinnott: Our main kick is that you are shooting too fast, it makes us all dizzy. You are trying to get heaven on earth-a code for this and a code for that. . . . But I didn't know the newspaper trade was exactly a sweat shop...