Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This prodigious increase in the native population is the real problem of the country. White men are driven to the cities and even out of the country by cheap colored labor, and the blacks, no longer engaged in inter-tribal warfare, are now increasing six times as fast as the whites...
...This country is fast losing an ear for the beauty of the spoken voice. Beautiful things tried in the theatre are not half enough patronized. I call upon you to foster the beauty of the theatre, wherever you find...
...congregation in Penn Yan, N. Y., undertook to read aloud the entire Bible in one day, by a relay team of 200 fast-speakers. The head man commenced: "In the beginning God created," etc., at 3 a. m. The tail man finished "... be with you all. Amen...
...supported by a greatly changed line-up for Team A. Captain Hammond was absent from his post at second and several of the Team A fielders were out for the afternoon. Except for the pitchers' duel the game was not particularly fast and was marred by several errors. The only score came in the fifth inning when Zarakov, who had worked to third by Slayton's error and hits by Howard and Hoffman took home on a passed ball...
...Freshmen and the seconds also staged their second battle on the Freshman field. J. N. Barbee '28, who played most of the game for the first year men was supported by a fast working group of companions in the field and allowed the seconds only one tally. Burns' throwing for the seconds was not so much of a success as the Freshmen gathered in five runs in as many innings...