Word: around
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...squad drilling on Mondays and Wednesdays, and the Freshmen on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The University schedule includes two games with Army, two with Yale, the usual Cleveland-Cincinnati trip, and the regular Armory schedule of games in the Boston league. In addition the team will play in New York around the end of March or the beginning of April...
Sued for Divorce. Nelson Morris, grandson & namesake of the founder of Morris & Co. (Chicago meatpackers), by Jeanne Aubert Morris, French legitimactress; at Versailles. Grounds: desertion. Since he flew around the world on the Graf Zeppelin he has not gone back to his wife...
...attempts at oil rationalization. But the restriction program, in its nation-wide aspect at least, fell through, and in August Sir Henri suddenly shocked U. S. oilmen, particularly the Standard Oil Company of New York, with an invasion of Socony's own territory. Throughout New England, and in and around New York, appeared filling stations selling Shell gasoline. Marketed by Shell Union Oil Corp., which, although a Royal-Dutch-Shell subsidiary, is third largest U. S. oil producer, Shell Gasoline represented foreign competition in a particularly acute form. Most of the Shell Gasoline has been imported from Venezuela whence...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
...unfortunate that the Bureau is not organized sooner in the year, but the small number of members until after the November elections is responsible for its late appearance. The aim of this type of tutoring is not identical with that of the coaching-schools that have mushroomed up around the Square. The art of studying is not to be learned the night before an examination; unless a man is willing to get, this sort of instruction earlier than the last minute, he must be content with professional cramming instead of guidance from students who have recently met and coped with...