Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least one city, see LETTERS, p. 2. Chamber-President Pierson announced last week that a flood control referendum was taken among all the 1,500 local Chambers of Commerce by sending them the recommendations of a committee of engineers and business men who surveyed the Mississippi flood area this autumn. Accompanying the recommendations was a list of arguments against them. The recommendations favored Federal assumption of all flood control expense. So did the final vote...
Football games in the Autumn rumble gently through the end of September, thump through October, thunder through November until late in the month, on a bleak windy afternoon, the Autumn storm breaks with a great roar of band music and cheering voices. This is the afternoon when the four eyes of a nervous Army mule and a tattered Navy goat are alone too frightened to watch their teams tussle on a darkening field...
...Autumn maneuvers by 1,000 French Negro troops and other Allied forces were recently carried out in such manner as to trample down whole fields of ripe grain without compensation to the owners...
Next year the number of Student Advisers, which totalled 70 this autumn, may be cut into less than half with 25 advisers reporting at Cambridge on the day that the Freshmen register, the "welcome committee" in each Freshman dormitory, holding office hours from 12 to 2 o'clock for a week, and eating in the Freshman dining halls, will function as it did this year. A large number of Freshman made use of the advisers in the Common Rooms last September, and the Committee feels that this feature of the system is worth retaining...
...stormy contraditions of the agile castles?these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated. By 1921, when he had not lost a game for seven years, Capablanca met German Dr. Lasker* for the championship and won four games without losing any. Since then, until this autumn, he had lost only three games...