Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flood '27 captains the winning team, whose fast and bewildering series of passes proved too much for the other members of the league...
When vigorous Dan Moody becomes Governor of Texas next month, he will find the jail population waning. The sympathetic heart of Governess Miriam A. ("Ma") Ferguson has been beating fast as the day of her political demise approaches. On Thanksgiving Day she pardoned 40 convicts; gave six furloughs, three paroles, two restorations of citizenship. During the 21 months of her governorship, Mrs. Ferguson has issued 2,645 clemency proclamations-a record for Texas...
...eggs, which are evidently laid at great depths. Laboratory observations have proved that eels spawn but once, dying immediately afterwards. All that ever comes back from the depths are transparent baby eels about 2 in. long, with which harbors and rivers teem in the spring. Before spawning, matured eels fast for months, their ultimate death re sulting from starvation. The small eels that return by the myriad are at least a year old, having developed out of a larval stage which Science long took to be a distinct species of surface-dwelling fish, leptocephali, notable for their complete lack...
Winthrop Rutherfurd married in 1920; now lives in Manhattan. In terviewed, he admitted he "admired" Miss Vanderbilt at the date in question; declined further comment. With these distressing rev elations coming thick and fast, the Protestant half of Manhattan recalled that there was still a pronunciamento to come, a review of all the premises and conclusions which would undoubtedly clear the air, explain all. This would be the self-volunteered statement promised by Protestant Episcopal Bishop Manning. The Bishop, Society remembered, had once known sharp-tongued Mrs. Belmont; had excluded her name, as divorcee, from the year book...
...single Conference game. Brown played three games with the same eleven men. The Army-Navy game (above) set a new record for attendance. New York University had the best team in its history, a team that might even be called "championship" if it had not lost to Nebraska. Lafayette, fast and adroit, was not beaten by any of the teams on its not-too-formidable list. The Navy -all in all perhaps the best team in the U. S.-had the hardest schedule: Purdue, Princeton, Colgate, Michigan, Georgetown and the Army...