Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system, according to experts, will be sound from a traffic as well as from a financial standpoint. Pere Marquette will serve to collect local traffic, and to distribute coal from the C. & O. The original Nickel Plate and Erie systems between them provide an excellent fast freight line into New York from the West. The Hocking Valley serves to connect the mileage of the C. & O., Erie and Nickel Plate. The consolidated system will touch New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, Peoria, Newport News, Toledo, Detroit, Buffalo. The old Erie gives it one seaboard outlet on the Atlantic...
...that no two physiques have the same flaws, that each should be made the object of close scrutiny and the subject of carefully calculated exercises. To him it was obvious that running a mile or otherwise expending energy wholesale, would not strengthen a weak neck or flabby arms so fast as studied exertion of the neck muscles or of the biceps. He invented ingenious strength and endurance tests, opened a gymnasium in Manhattan, set out to prove his theories upon his pupils...
...Bishop, so the story ran, "jolted" his fellow Bishops by telling them: "Better a free Britain than a sober one." Such simple, wet words from a leader of the church militant had effect in defeating the bill by 166 to 50 votes. Their dry lordships continued to hold fast to their faith in the bill which they declared was not dead...
...record for the 400-metre run stood at 48⅓ secs. When Liddell, spindly Scotch parson, snapped the tape in the final, it was 47 3/3 secs. Before Liddell settled the matter the record had been broken twice in heats, by Imbach, an unsung Swiss, by Fitch, a fast Chicagoan...
...first two events completed were the 10,000-metre run and the javelin-throw. Rushing over a muddy track, Willie Ritola took the former for Finland so fast (30 min. 23 sec.) that he smashed his own world's record. Wide, of Sweden, his arms high, wild, awkward, was 200 yds. behind. Jonnie Myyra of Finland hurled his javelin 207 ft., leaving Swedish hurlers second and sixth, Americans third and fifth...