Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first students included an overlarge share of well-heeled Joe Colleges who wore bright yellow slickers, drove fast roadsters, drank corn liquor, and splurged their allowances on the coeds of the old Trinity campus. Some off-campus wags suggested that Duke change its motto from Eruditio et Religio to Erudiiio, Religio, et Tobacco...
...Randolph Smith-he also started putting out the kind of music children didn't know they would like until they tried it. He began to get reactions from seven-and eight-year-olds such as "I like Stravinsky . . . You take nice jumps and land on your toes." As fast as Grenell could press them, kids all over the U.S. began devouring such nutritional morsels as Haydn's Toy Symphony, Mozart's Country Dances, Liadov's Russian Folk Songs and Prokofiev's A Summer...
Last week, with a Confederate flag waving, Frnka's unbeaten, untied heroes went north to avenge a 59-6 beating by Notre Dame two years ago. In the pre-game workout, they looked fully up to their advance billing and their record-big, fast, alert and confident. But within ten minutes after the game had begun, Tulane's dream of a national championship had been irretrievably shattered...
...Tribune, is too nervous to sleep more than four or five hours a night; frequently he climbs out of bed at 3 or 4 a.m. to prowl St. Paul in search of news. With his luck, aggressiveness and insatiable curiosity, Presbrey regularly beats the ears off his rivals on fast-breaking stories...
...Rank's troubles were caused by the fact that he had grown too big too fast. After he had won critical huzzahs and made money on such pictures as Henry V, he had attempted to increase his annual output of pictures from 25 to 60. Directors like Sydney Box (The Seventh Veil), who had been turning out five good films a year, were told to make 20. There was not enough moviemaking talent for all the pictures and the result was a dreary parade of box-office flops which cut into the profits of Rank's theaters...