Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Manhattan's East Side ghetto lay dank and dismal beneath a late autumn drizzle. In one narrow street, before a certain house, thousands of Jews milled about on the wet flagging and cobblestones, packing the whole block with their numbers. Grief was on their faces and in the low wailing that some set up as they waited. In the middle of the block stood a hearse...
...continued although somewhat irregular advance in prices. As yet, no signs of security inflation have appeared except in a minor way. Brokers' loans are stationary, and purchasing is still largely for cash. Declarations of new dividends, especially among the weaker railroads, already go to show that the autumn's "bull market" has not been a merely speculative movement, but caused by fundamental economic reasons...
Florida held another late-autumn reception at Jacksonville, sent Washington and Lee home chastised, 16 to 6. Florida's captain, Halfback Newton, did the honors. He needed no interference when plunging, his punts averaged 57 yards...
Another possible explanation offered by Mr. Enright is that of the exceptionally dry autumn. In the last fifteen years, it has very rarely been necessary to pump water into the rinks. Unless a large number of leaks are found, the work should be completed today...
Coady of Harvard was given a place at tackle on the basis of his showing toward the end of the season. His development at the start was retarded by an early autumn operation. An explanation of the choice of Beattie is superfluous to any one who saw the Harvard-Princeton game...