Word: although
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York University 21 to 34. Of its team, Rekers, star runner, placed only fifty-third in the annual meet last year, but has shown exceptional ability this season. Meisinger placed eleventh, and Ratcliff fourteenth. This team was the winner of the I. C. 4A. meet in 1928, although the first three on the team to finish have been graduated...
This group of talks is sponsored annually by the Graduate Schools Committee of the Phillips Brooks House Association, and has had growing patronage during the last few years. Although designed primarily for Graduate students, the lectures are open to members of the University; and all men interested are invited to attend...
...Harvard Economic Society, started ten years ago as the Committee on Economic Research, has come to occupy a significant although unobtrusive place among the university's diversified activities in the economic field. Directed by a board of trustees which brings together both professors in the Department of Economics and the Business School and representative men of affairs, the Society has done much to develop closer cooperation between the academic and the practical spheres of economic activity. Its "Review of Economic Statistics" and "Weekly Letter" enjoy a limited but ever-increasing circulation among business men who desire to have some greater...
...cowboys of the '70s spent their holidays in Dodge City. They had seen desperados run amuck, had joined in quick, relentless justice. Remembering, they climbed Dodge City's famed Boot Hill, burial place of many men and one woman* who died "with their boots on" (by violence). Although 32 of the bodies were removed to the town's cemetery in 1878, it is popularly supposed that several collections of bones still lie under Boot Hill sod. On this traditional spot the "Last Roundup" laid the cornerstone of a new city hall. Then a statue was unveiled...
...time (1919-27) Missouri Congressman, and Thomas Cobbs. What aroused them was the fact that the two mongooses, which resembled large nervous rats in their cages at the St. Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would, if allowed to multiply, quickly menace poultry and game...