Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy is every one that holdeth her fast. (Proverbs...
Except for its crusty conservatives and temperamental radicals, the College remains largely a hotbed of unconcern. Safely perched in the "middle-of-the-road," many of its "moderate liberals" hold fast to their comfortably philosophy of "don't-give-a-damnism." When sufficiently aroused by a crisis--or even a simple emergency they lean to the Left and lend their silent aid and comfort to the Respectable Radicals...
...more than a third also look at his Life. Though some students violently criticize these two magazines--for their tendency to transform current events into a modern morality play, and for their use of irrelevant detail to lend an air of precision and accuracy to accomplish generalizations--the slick, fast-moving style of Time and Life apparently appeals even to Harvard's high intellectual level. Luce's columns are definitely the meat in the College's political sandwich...
Boulris Started Fast...
...spitball won 40 games in 1908; of cancer; in Pompano Beach, Fla. Walsh won an average of 24 games a season during his peak years (1906-12) with the Chicago White Sox, pitched a record total of 464 innings in one season, but was so overworked that he faded fast in his early 303. He never made more than $6,500 a year, and although elected to baseball's Hall of Fame in 1946, had to eke out a living on a pittance of a pension...