Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fast for Minute...
...while the Junior attack became less effective, until it was almost completely throttled in the last tilt with the Sophomores. On the basis of these comparisons, the 1929 team should be made the favorite, as having displayed greater ability to rise to an occasion, but the Juniors have a fast and versatile offense, with an especially effective aerial game that may upset predictions at any time...
...about town, from time immemorial, the beau ideal of tailors, is fast yielding his place to the college man. As one scans the magazine and newspaper advertisements one is soon struck with the high opinion which Fashion Park holds concerning the collegiate mode--that is collegiate in the college sense and not as depicted in the moving pictures. Each college (with the marked and poignant exception of Harvard) has its best dressed man who enthusiastically recommends collars, shirts, ties and sundry haberdashery. If one wishes to be attired correctly--in a manner neat but emphatically not gaudy--one must wear...
Flurry. Who drafted this unprecedented document? Its purveyors refused to say. The hundred odd famed signatures made it white-hot news. Fearful of lagging behind, the great news agencies tarried not to investigate but broadcast this roundest of round robins as fast as cable relays could click. Local editors in every capital hastily picked a financier of foreign nationality as the documents' author. British editors picked signatory Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank. Germans favored signatory Montagu Norman,*** Governor of the Bank of England. Frenchmen were sure that signatory John Pierpont Morgan was at the bottom...
...minutes were tense. Well aloft, one engine of the double-motored Imperial Airways liner had coughed peevishly and stopped dead. The mechanic had instantly scrambled out to mend it, but returned at once to the cockpit. With twelve people and their baggage aboard the ship was dropping too fast. Pilot Dinsmore had glided into the choppy sea as best he could, but not without pitching overboard one of his passengers, one Peter Kanevaros of Jaffersonville, Ind. While the gentleman from Indiana was bobbing up and paddling back to the plane, Pilot Dinsmore quickly instructed his remarkably calm companions. They broke...