Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lord High Chancellor replied: "We are assured that it is the desire of the commercial community and the general community to get rid of the election as fast as possible...
...Cabinet Minister Winston Spencer Churchill, who is now a full-fledged Conservative. It was said that never before has the Party been so short of able leaders. Ex-Premier Stanley Baldwin is, however, the de jure leader of the Party, although the signs and portent were that "Winnie" was fast becoming the de facto leader...
Voting is fast becoming a decadent art in the United States. The Federal Council of Churches report shows that since 1880 the number of qualified voters who registered a choice at the polls has declined from 80 per cent to a mere 49 per cent in 1920. State percentages are even more discouraging. In South Carolina in 1920 only 8.5 per cent of the qualified voters stuck a ballot in the box. In New England, the stronghold for the free suffrages of the people, Massachusetts was high, with a total of 53-3 per cent. Politically minded citizens seem...
With the decadence of classical learning, Greek-letter fraternities at Harvard are fast going out of fashion. Last year the Falcon Club changed its name from Lambda Chi Alpha to its present name. Alpha Phi Sigma is following suit, and has given itself a thoroughly English name, the Trident Club. In changing its name, the Trident Club is making no attempt to change its status...
When the runners started over the five-mile Charles River course at the south end of the Lars Anderson bridge a little after 4 o'clock, the weather was fairly cold, not conducive to fast times. Kelley displayed excellent form throughout the entire distance, while the University men, all in fairly good shape, were bunched most of the race...