Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cutts '28 will start on the mound for Harvard. J. N. Barbee '28, who held the Wolverines to five hits when the Crimson won the first game of the series, will probably be unable to see action against Michigan on account of a rhaumatic back...
...contest between the Harvard and Brown baseball teams scheduled for yesterday was postponed on account of bad weather to 4 o'clock this afternoon...
...Freshman tennis match scheduled for yesterday afternoon with Columbia Grammar School of New York City was cancelled on account of wet courts. The schoolboys came to Cambridge, but left by train in the early afternoon when they found that play was impossible...
...Silently acquiesced, when Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
Last week fellow members of London's aristocratic Carlton Club condoled with Sir William, 64, because he had dislocated a shoulder. Soon, however, many a gouty peer grew mirthful at Sir William's very clubbable account of his dislocation. Said he: "I was undressing slowly, the other night, and reading P. G. Wodehouse's humorous story, Jeeves Carries On. I was so absorbed that I did not look to see what I was doing and consequently did not realize that I was putting both feet into one pajama leg. A moment later I stood up, overbalanced, fell...