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Last week blood did run. A mob of 3,000, whipped on by Kashani and other mullahs, gathered outside the Majlis building. There they tangled with police and soldiers. Some demonstrators acted on a Persian belief that the barefooted are the fleetest; they shed their slippers and scampered for safety, a slipper tucked under each arm. Among the demonstrators and troops, one was killed, 70 wounded. The Majlis meeting was canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIA: Early Fall | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Monday the yacht club will enter the Greater Boston competition for the Oberg Trophy, awarded to the fleetest dinghy squadron in the area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sailors Race Yale | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

First out of the inferno was squealing, kicking Beaugay, the fleetest two-year-old filly of the 1945 season. Somebody held her fast. Stable boys led out other terrified thoroughbreds; agonized screams came from horses still in the blaze. In 20 minutes, the worst fire in horse-racing history was over. The toll: 23 horses valued at about $400,000. Only six were saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Arlington Inferno | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Some suspicion on Dean Buck's comment that this class "contains more potential ability" than any other, was shed by the fact that it took fully one-half hour for the fleetest of the Freshmen, Herbert M. Cohen, of Lawrence, to thread his way through the rigmarole of enrollment and earn his free copy of the CRIMSON. Apologies for the generally leisurely progress of the Yardlings were made by the registrars, who nevertheless admitted that the procedure was somewhat more complicated than usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 714 MASTER REGISTRATION MELEE; OLD STUDENTS ENTER 9-12:30 TODAY | 9/26/1942 | See Source »

...ballet troupes, but-because of ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: On the Toes | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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