Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...snow-storm on the Scottish Border, a young artist seeks shelter in a lonely, high-turreted house where he finds a pretty girl, her guardian, a cynical, mysterious amateur of the arts, and, on the mantlepiece, a copper box marked with a strange crest. Adventures come thick and fast, but there are no murders. The coil is unwound at last to a happy ending. A slight, debonair mystery story, lightly and engagingly executed...
...University started the scoring in the third inning when Keegan hit strongly for a single and was advanced to second on Young's hit. Clark, however, hit weakly to Pond who threw to third, retiring Keegan. Thayer coming up next drove out a fast liner that brought Young in and advanced Clark to third. Jenkins brought him in on a deep sacrifice...
That the race will rouse considerable interest and that Ray is quite likely to establish a new record, if given a fast track and good weather conditions, can not be doubted. Clearly too the Athletic Association has acted magnanimously in inviting Ray to attempt the record once again; it will be repaid by the interest of the baseball game crowd and of those who purchase the special tickets. It is at least questionable, however; whether any athletic event in which the center of attraction is non-collegiate can be appropriate during Commencement week. The week is devoted to college life...
...this end Coach Muller abandoned the idea of a time-trial, originally scheduled for Saturday evening, and instead drove his men through several fast half-mile sprints. This work, he feels, will help materially in developing that speed of pull-through and consequent good proportion to the stroke which has been so conspicuously lacking in the University boat to date...
This practice with regard to "margin" stock is unavoidable and is in every way legal and legitimate. But owing to the fact that most brokerage customers do not fully understand the business, it permits unprincipled brokers to sell out their customers' stock as fast as it is purchased&−which is "bucketing." If the customer asks where his stock is, he is told that it is at a bank in a "loan envelope," and he has to take the broker's word for it. The "bucketing" broker profits from this illegal and underhanded practice in two ways...