Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance for a new game was afforded by the university when it supplied the Common room with four shiny brass ash trays, stamped H. U. Immediately the sportiest of the young athletes invented a fast game of table shuffle board. Played by teams of two, in which two men of opposing sides stand at each end off a long table, the objective is to have your two ash trays nearest the other end of the table. If one contestant can get both nearer than his opponent does, his side scores two points, if only one is ahead a single marker...
...working around the Yard for a few years, I was given the job of lighting the Yard lights. I used to carry a bottle of bensine and a torch around with me every night, and fill and light each lamp separately. Sometimes the wind would blow them out as fast as I could light them, and then I'd have o start all over again...
...hard-played, fast game at the Hemenway Gymnasium Saturday night, the Harvard basketball team won a clean-cut victory over Yale by a 30 to 12 margin. The University players, in defeating Yale for the third successive year, displayed a decided superiority over their opponents. Their play was considerably better than the best they had shown in any game of their mediocre preliminary season...
...Harvard Freshmen have improved greatly in the last three games, beating Brown by one point, but losing to Dartmouth at Hanover by a large score. According to Coach A.W. Samborski '25, they found their bearings in the latter game, and in losing were weldede into a unit, playing fast and coordinated basketball.CAPTAIN J.S. MALICK...
...told that Germany plans only to defend her own frontier with these forces. I warn you that the German war theory now, as before the War, involves swift attack and the occupation of a large portion of Belgium. German military philosophy may be summed up in three rules: Work fast, attack, and carry the war into the enemy's territory...