Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been herded out of the city three weeks ago but for the incompetence of the American authorities there have been caught in the street fighting between Nationalist advance guards and retiring Northerners. That it is the fault of U. S. authorities that they are so caught does not alter the apprehension felt for their safety. But they have not been massacred, General Chiang Kai Shek has promised to guarantee their safety, and according to late advices last night many of them had already reached places of refuge under the protection of United States warships...
...tourrament will start shortly alter February 1, and continue for several weeks. The finals and semifinals will be played in Boston in the Harvard Club courts...
...which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what he was about that of all the structural wires in eight groups of rearing, plunging, pawing horses and clinging or waving men, he did not have to alter a single bend or angle as originally made...
...features of the Freshman wrestling season this year will be too inter-dormitory competition, which will take place during the second week alter the Christmas vacation. Matches of this sort have been, held successfully during the past two years, between Smith, Standish and Gore Halls. This year, with the addition of McKinlock, the championship should bring about still better competition...
...Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers! ... If this continues a collapse in the industry which provides the South African Government with ?3,000,000 in taxes annually is sure to come, and the country will have to provide for thousands of starving...