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Word: fasts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mysterious new shell, The Flying Dutchman. This shell, anonymously given, appeared prepaid one day at the Princeton boat house. It is eight feet shorter than the average shell, and nine inches wider. Flatbottomed, it is designed to skim the water rather than cut it. When it goes fast, it rises out of the water like a motor boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dutchman | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...After a fast game with the Dartmouth lacrosse team on Saturday which ended in a 3 to 3 tie after an overtime period, the Crimson stickmen this afternoon take on the powerful St. John's outfit from Baltimore, which has won laurels from Army, Johns Hopkins, and Yale. The game will be played at 4 o'clock on the Business School Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TIE GREEN AND TAKE ON ST. JOHN'S | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...will find your attention called to the hazardous sport of cribbing, to the fast and savage new indoor game of feather wafting, to kodaking the koodoo in Africa, to drop-tag as a pleasing sport for the flyer, and to the fact that while you cannot afford to buy a race-horse, the Aga Khan. The pictures are better than the text, but of what sporting paper, is this not true? Leslie Cheek '31 supplies an uproarious cover, and the whole staff has been busy making composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY STEPS ON NO TOES IN NEW PARODY NUMBER | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...without work today would find occupations. England and France are keeping their commercial eyes on Russia, too, and at the first sign of a stable working arrangement with that country, all Europe would look to the Soviet Union as a market for goods that are not being sold fast enough in other places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Klein's Diagnosis | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

...second day of the Penn Relay Carnival at Philadelphia last Saturday, his heave of 140 feet 9 inches winning him fourth place in that event. T. F. Mason '30 worked his way into the semi-finals of the 100-yard dash, but was eliminated by the exceptionally fast competition, the winner leading the field in 9.4 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VONCKX PLACES IN WEIGHT EVENT; RELAY TEAM LOSES | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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