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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this present day the life of peoples and of individuals moves too fast. We must arrest it briefly on occasions such as today, just long enough to review the work accomplished in one year. So the soldier pauses for a momentary halt upon his march...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tuba Sounded | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...they hang on to the plates and hinder my work. And when they've finally paid their bill, they think they'll have another milk and a piece of cake, and a newspaper and a cigarette. You can't tell me that the boys get indigestion from eating too fast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Eat and Run" Is the Exception, Maintain Impatient Waiters, Chafing for Students to Leave Kickshaws and Cigarettes | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...books and papers, and get their lunch and make a regular library out of the place, spreading it thick all over the tables. And at night, there's a regular bunch of night-ows who stay here and do everything but hoot. I don't know anything about how fast they eat, but they do make a slow and sociable affair out of their meals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Eat and Run" Is the Exception, Maintain Impatient Waiters, Chafing for Students to Leave Kickshaws and Cigarettes | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Tiger jinx again followed a fighting Harvard football team on Saturday. The Crimson eleven, seldom emerging from its own territory, was completely stopped by a fast, hard line and in turn out-rushed and out-scored by the elusive Princeton backs. The game was marked by rough, aggressive play and the University squad left the field, weakened by the temporary loss at least of three of its best men, and defeated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOSERS BEAR SCARS OF TIGER JUGGERNAUT | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...with that famous Forecast from whom I inherit my athletic ability. It was at the time during the Revolution when the British were besieged in Boston, and the Minute Men improved their idle moments in Cambridge by playing football among themselves at Soldiers Field. But Gamaliel Forecast was too fast for the Minute Men. He played on the Second Team...

Author: By Joe Forecast, | Title: MODESTY DESERTED, JOE REVEALS FAMOUS EXPLOITS OF GREAT MEN IN FORECAST SAGA | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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