Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June, 11); a distinguished vice president of the American Olympic Committee resigned because of him; the British protested against him. Yet his simple denial of misbehavior and a look at the rule-book were sufficient to allow him to represent the U. S. at the IXth Olympiad. John Weissmuller, fast U. S. swimmer, untainted amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts to the swimming events or should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water...
...Crime's since-the-War increase, as follows: "1) The increase and development in the means of communication, hard roads and high-powered automobiles, making the 'getaway' easy. "2) The vastly increased wealth of our citizens and especially of the criminal classes, enabling them to buy fast motors and expensive guns. "3) Organized crime which enables the underworld to make liberal contributions to political campaigns and to exert a powerful influence in politics. "4) Delay in the apprehension and speedy punishment of criminals due in part to the leniency and paltering of political judges and in part...
...know no hard and fast rule for successful investments. It seems ridiculous to me to be asked how to invest money wisely...
...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...
...Significance. Such is the array of Pirandello's characters-the old clinging foolishly to the dead Bourbon issue, the young fasci passionately avowing an unborn issue, and the middle aged fattening themselves on a fast demoding regime of ruthlessness-that one finishes his grand-scale novel with as great a mental confusion as existed in the Sicily in the 'gos. One cannot wonder at the half dozen protagonists that go mad in the course of 764 pages. Not even the main characters have all been mentioned here, to say nothing of the intricate assortment of servants, lovers, cousins...