Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Argentina soccer is known as futbol. Every autumn Sunday 18 major league teams play it in stadia throughout Buenos Aires. Every Sunday Argentine fans reach a fine pitch of emotion. Last week, as Argentine's autumn got under way, Sunday crowds saw many a fine futbol game. At one a River Plate player assaulted and broke the jaw of an opponent. He was held for trial on $5,000 bail. Another was arrested for kicking his opponent in the stomach. Exhilarated, the crowd began to throw rocks at the players. Some took out revolvers and fired furiously into...
...more like it. Should Secretary Woodin call the 4th Liberty Loan for next October and sell an issue of 37% bonds to pay it off, the Government would save $62,680,000 a year. Financiers waited to see whether he would jump at the chance. Last autumn Britain refunded one of her large loans at an annual saving of $100,000,000 in interest. France by a similar action saved herself $52,000,000 a year...
Others honored are the following: W. C. Graustein '11, associate professor of Mathematics from 1926 to 1933 has been elected professor of Mathematics. M. H. Stone '22, associate professor of Mathematics at Yale since 1931 will come to Harvard next autumn as associate professor of Mathematics and tutor in Mathematics. He was a member of the department of Mathematics at Harvard from 1922, until he went to Yale in 1931. G. B. Kistiakowsky will serve as associate professor of chemistry. H. B. Cabot '17, a Boston lawyer and a graduate of the Harvard Law School has been appointed assistant professor...
...Harvard's next president before Commencement received a serious setback yesterday with the announcement that no name was submitted to the Board of Overseers at its meeting yesterday afternoon. It is now considered more than likely that final action on President Lowell's successor will be put off until autumn...
...Philadelphia Athletics have two problems: 1) laws prohibiting Sunday baseball; 2) rookie outfielders to replace Haas and Simmons, whom Manager Cornelius McGillicuddy had to sell, along with Infielder Dykes, to the Chicago White Sox for $80,000 last autumn...