Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pounds, aggressive Pete Olney faces the star of the Virginia team, Maynard Harlow. Harlow is a Southern Conference Champion, has been undefeated ever since he first fought for the Cavaliers, a thoroughly enviable record, for he has faced the best in the Collegiate ranks at his weight. Olney, fast on his feet, hard hiting and dependable, lost but one bout last season--to this same Harlow. He will be out for revenge tomorrow night, and a hard close fight will result...
...swing freely into each other, going round and round the ring, giving and taking. As collegiate boxing frowns on the practice of pounding a man to pieces from close quarters, the men do not follow up and close in as much as the professionals, but the action is fast, the blows hard. Lamar, looking on with several members of the team, serves as time-keeper and referee, and coaches at the same time--"Get away from there! . . . . Use your right more . . . . Get off those ropes . . . . Break...
...entertainment, amusing to audiences and players alike, the Clubs hold a unique and vital position in the college scene. If capable officers are chosen and vigorously supported in their plans for the ensuing year, a few changes and readjustments will send the Clubs off to a new and a fast start...
...experience of organizing labor under a fast-moving group like the C.I.O. is a delicate feast for the fanatic, but labor sympathizers in Harvard should not shirk the responsibility that association with a great university implies. That responsibility is to think as well as act, and head-long flight into the Lewis camp, without seeing to it that the members of the union are to get some democratic check on the leader in Washington, may lead in the course of time to a destruction of those very civil liberties which the Harvard Student Union so ardently and sincerely espouses...
...Rejoining his family in St. Petersburg, Pushkin plunged into gay life with a whoop, for three years hardly came up for air. Five feet six, curly-haired, stocky, with blubber nose and lips, long gilt fingernails, he was not handsome, but his bursting energy made him popular with a fast young set who called him "Cricket" and "Spark." Drinking, drabbing, dicing and duelling filled his nights and days. On the side, he wrote a six-canto poem, Ruslan and Liudmila, many a dangerously political verse. The Tsar's police soon had him under surveillance, but were never able...