Word: fasting
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...pattern that might have prepared Moslems for adversity. Islam was an instant success. In the power vacuum left by the disintegration of the last remnants of Roman and Byzantine order, Mohammed's hard-riding followers quickly achieved one of the world's greatest military conquests. Armed with fast cavalry and such innovations as the stirrup (giving lancers leverage), Arabs swept east to India and west to France, subjugating Persia, Egypt and Spain. Within 100 years, they won an empire bigger than the one the Romans had built up in 600 years, and they commanded the world...
Taken before Acting Principal Peter Lopiparo, she claimed that she had crammed for the exam and had scribbled down the notes during the first half-hour of the test period. Lopiparo refused to believe her, asked her to copy them as fast as she could. After 20 minutes, recalls Lopiparo, she was not even a quarter of the way, so he grilled her for two hours until, in tears and near hysteria, she gave him a written confession: "I cheated. Marsha Goldwyn." She retracted next day, but it was too late. She was given a zero as a cheater...
When the carrier is at fault-as when a clerk slaps a Carson City ticket on a bag headed for Chicago-the errant luggage is pursued relentlessly. When it can finally be established that a piece is lost, financial settlement is made. Naturally, people try to pull a fast one once in a while. A man arrives at the airport, does not feel like waiting around for a few minutes to claim his luggage, and then complains to the airline from his hotel. Right or wrong, he gets his bag custom-delivered to his room...
...courses utilize the summer months, provide about the same training as normal medical-school programs. "These programs are designed to let the bright young man go at his own pace," says Dr. Shevis Smyth of the Association of American Medical Colleges, "to give him the best medical education as fast as he can absorb it." Still, a good deal of time in the first two years is left open for such nonmedical studies as language, sociology, music and philosophy. Even in the final med-school years, accelerated students at Northwestern attend seminars on "Four Plays of Shakespeare" and "Communications Theory...
...Later this month, the L. & H. lore will be further enriched by the publication of The Films of Laurel and Hardy* by William Everson. Incisive, objective and generously illustrated, the book traces the development of the team from their first silent two-reeler, Putting Pants on Philip (1927)-a fast-paced trifle with elements of homosexual humor-through their hilarious, Oscar-winning The Music Box (1932), to the sad, tired, misconceived mishmash, Atoll K (1952). In all, the dim-witted duo made 90 films as a team, immortalizing such mannerisms as Ollie's blushing "tie twiddle" and exasperated slow...