Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ingenious student in Chemistry 1, when the filter which he was using would not drain fast enough to suit him, remedied the defect by punching a hole in the filter...
Wide swings the fast-shut palace-gate...
...farther out, and we shall take steps to settle this point at once, and if the measurement is wrong, it will be rectified in the early spring. We regret extremely that any such mistake, if mistake it prove to be, should have occurred, but men seem to forget that fast time cannot be made on any track unless they really train, and if there was a single man in last Saturday's races who had trained himself into the pink of condition, we failed to notice him. Several gentlemen have ridden over the track on their bicycles, and their cyclometers...
...success on the river, to know that the Captain of the 'Varsity will be with us this year, and will take his old thwart in the boat. To '82 we are looking with interest and expectancy. '82! The very figures warn us of our increasing baldness and our fast-falling gray hairs. May the Fates spare us long enough to see the Freshmen well started on the road to a "liberal education," and our own hopes realized in that tangible but often mystical thing, a degree...
...Fast Walking. - On September 14, at the sports of the Scottish-American Athletic Club, F. H. Armstrong in a 3-mile handicap, walking from scratch, covered the distance in 21 min. 17 sec., the fastest record in the world. The best English record is 21 min. 36 sec. by Venn, and the best American hitherto was 22 min. and 9 1/3 sec. by Armstrong. The track used was nine laps to the mile, and with very short corners. At the same meeting, out of five heats in a 75-yard handicap there were three dead-heats, - a silent compliment...