Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This autumn there is no fresher news in the world of art than the mushrooming of these Community Art Centres. Among the least publicized concerns of the Federal Art Project, they are fast becoming its most cherished offspring. Located mainly in cities where no art museums or schools previously existed, they have had an attendance so far of about 4,000,000 people-almost equal to the combined two years' attendance at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and Chicago's Art Institute. They are designed to be, and promise to be, permanent; for they belong...
...years ago Harvard's first great football team since the days of Barry Wood went into the closing minutes of the Princeton game trailing 14-7. All afternoon it had stubbornly battled the fast. Crislor machine on almost even terms. With but a couple of minutes to play Harvard had the ball just inside Tiger territory, and the long pass was called...
Last year there were also temporary disappointments. An amazingly fast Big Green team from the hills of Hanover outsloshed the Harlowmen on a muddy field and won 20-2. An inferior Army team triumphed 7-6, when Harvard's injury-riddled eleven pushed them all over the gridiren but lacked the key men to score...
...pugilistic freak is Henry Armstrong. A bantamweight from the waist down and a welterweight from the waist up, he has arms as fast as Glenn Cunningham's legs -and just as tireless. He can throw 1,200 punches in a 15-round fight (as he did against Barney Ross last May) and appear no more fatigued than if he had spent an evening at a Harlem shindig. He has fought on an average of twice a month in the past year, has knocked out 35 of his last 38 opponents. Most fight fans agreed that the little Iron...
...manager, soon was giving free lessons, mostly to middle-aged people, in Y. M. C. A.'s, settlement houses, clubs, schools. Today there are classes in some 200 U. S. cities and seven foreign countries, and 5,000 people study Georgism by correspondence. New teachers cannot be trained fast enough. Honorary president of the school is venerable Philosopher John Dewey...