Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mutt Psychology." Just before the vote, California's Senator Hiram Johnson arose, pulled down his waistcoat, rattled off a fast-stepping speech which, beneath the ridicule, epitomized the Senate's opinion in favor of Debentures. His fists moved back and forth characteristically as he conceded the debenture was a "bounty" and asked, "What...
Nick Keart is a small Syrian, a "bookie" at the racetrack. His career has been interrupted by a sentence to the Washington, D. C.. jail. Well does he know Rancocas stable and its fast horses-Zev, Mei Foo, Greylag...
Fifty-three years ago there was a physics instructor at U. S. Naval Academy who developed a great curiosity. He wanted desperately to know just how fast light travels. He was then a young man of 23. Now he is 76 and has become a veritable epicure in curiosity. He demands the very tittles of exactness...
After the Southern trip where Coach Mitchell's charges walloped the ball at a fast clip in the face of ragged early-season hurling, the team has slowed down and batting averages have gradually fallen to their present position...
...value of the parody, as well as the quality of the parody has taken a fall indeed. The spontaneity of a Yale or Princeton issue, the "Evening Graphite" or the "Daily Prints-anything" fortunately intervenes occasionally to tide over the barrenness of the customary publication, but the laurels are fast fading upon the tortured brow of college journalism in this particular field of endeavour, and it may be said that its success will only follow in the footsteps of its comparative rarity...