Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Writing is fast becoming the lost activity in the educational process." Last week this statement by able Dean of Admissions Eugene S. Wilson of Amherst College sparked significant action at the annual meeting of the powerful College Entrance Examination Board in Manhattan. Speaking for 15 New England colleges, Dean Wilson had a fairly startling suggestion: add an English essay question to C.E.E.B.'s objective-question tests, the chief divining rod for admission to 287 U.S. colleges and universities. With some misgivings, the meeting finally approved Dean Wilson's urgent proposal. Result: next year, after a decade of multiple...
...Louisiana State dormitory, sold pop and peanuts at L.S.U. football games as a kid, naturally enrolled at the university desoite the 50 offers he drew as a high school All-America. A predental student (B average) with a wife and three daughters, Cannon may well be the strongest fast man, or the fastest strong man, in the world. Square and solid (6 ft. 1 in., 207 Ibs.), he puts the shot 54 ft. 4½ in. (world record: 63 ft. 4 in.), rips off the hundred in 9.4 sec. (world record: 9.3 sec.). What is more, Cannon can also block...
...Tigers have a big, fast, and rangy halfback line, led by John McBride and intercollegiate squash champion Steve Vehslage. Princeton's fullbacks, however, are not impressive, and goalie Mickey Michel is just fair...
Coach Dick Colman has the proper personnel. Tailback Hugh Scott, though not exceptionally fast, has proved an extremely powerful and canny runner as well as a capable passer. At present he is third in the league in total offense with 358 yards...
...familiar but furtive peddler on the streets of Brazil's metropolitan (pop. 3,650,000) Sao Paulo. His wares: his own hand-painted ties, priced from 85^ to $1.15. "It was embarrassing and illegal," Mabe confesses. "I had no peddler's license, but they sold fast." Only at night did Manabu Mabe indulge his private obsession, squandering his money on oil and canvases, sitting up, often until dawn, to paint large, calligraphic abstractions. Suddenly this year the whirlwind of artistic success sucked 35-year-old Manabu Mabe into its embrace, tossed him sky-high and made...