Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey mass," wrote eyewitnesses. "Tenderhearted" motorists were halted on the highways by the creeping hordes. More brutal drivers forged ahead, until they "skidded and were blocked" by masses of living and dead mice. Every front door in the lowlands of Kern County was reported to be shut fast, housewives staying within, men climbing out their windows to give battle. In the oil fields, workmen awoke to find their shacks alive with squeaking, gnawing rodents. Shoes were nibbled to shreds; socks were like lace; shirts and trousers in tatters. "One man couldn't find his clothes...
...play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer in a stable community. But the ballyhoo beckons to the boy, also. He joins the circus one vacation, soon develops an aversion for "all them colleges" of his father's dreams and hopes, marries...
...pole vault, and the 1000-yard run. The Columbia racers, slated to clash with the Crimson in the feature one-mile relay, were withdrawn, and the University of Maryland has elected to clash with the University of Virginia and Harvard in this event. The Virginia quartet is exceptionally fast. Plans are still in the air as to who will leave the marks for the University in the relay, but Coach Farrell announced that he will undoubtedly choose his quartet from G. A. Tupper '29, L. D. Brayton '28, W. C. Peet '28, A. H. O'Neil '28, E. C. Haggerty...
...visiting five from the Nutmeg State got away to a fast start, scoring first, and holding on to the long end of the tally throughout the game. At the end of the first period Connecticut...
...Crimson were not so successful in the relays. Holy Cross showed a strong team to defeat the Dunn-Tupper-Peet-O'Neil combination in the mile event in the time of 3m, 11 1-5 seconds. The Crimson racers held the lead for two laps, due to a fast relay by R. T. Dunn '28, but Maher and Burns of the Crusaders proved too much for their rivals in the final laps...