Word: rapid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hitherto unannounced game, the forces of the Crimson and the Blue will meet to determine the Ivy- League Newspaper Football championship at 11 o'clock this morning. Led by Rapid Robbie Robbins, the CRIMSON will put its undefeated eleven on Soldiers Field to oppose Flashy Ford's forces from New Haven. The NEW's record to date in 2 wins and 23 defeats. Before the game, the Yale men will attend a tea in their honor at the CRIMSON building. Hu Flung Huey predicted a 23 to 2 victory for Harvard...
Those were the days when you could see the salmon fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of them all, weighing maybe 50 lb., break through a shallow rapid like a torpedo. If you were still luckier you might catch one. Because the fish come up small streams, perhaps only six feet across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your...
Other party artists are Marvin J. Shapiro '42, an expert cartoonist, who often teams up with his housemate Daniel M. Pearce '42 for a combination rapid-drawing and white-faced clown act. Paul Rail '45, regaled in colorful Sioux costumery, will demonstrate "the rhythmic dances of the red man, and explain their symbolism...
Early symptoms are a tired feeling, loss of weight, rapid breathing, fast heart action, vague pains in the joints, commonly called "growing pains." The child becomes pale, except for flushed cheekbones-the "rheumatic look." He sometimes develops a typical rash, and his joints may become red, swollen...
...Shelley reminded him (he said) of a serpent that walked on the tip of its tail -so strange and rapid were his movements, so remote his habits-glistening, ubiquitous, and hard to capture." Trelawny did not discover that of him Byron had said: "If they could teach Trelawny to wash his hands and tell the truth, they would have some hope of turning him out a gentleman...