Word: autumns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...practice accomplishes less than nothing toward reducing it. Instead of a perfectly natural beginning of football practice in the early fall, here is a forced, unseasonal imitation. If advertisement, rather than less publicity were desired, nothing would be better caculated to provoke it than this untimely preparation for next autumn's games...
...Every university within reach of a large population conducts through the autumn months what is practically a great program of public entertainment, for which relatively high prices of admission are charged and from which accrues tremendous income for the purpose of the sport and for the promotion of the general athletic programs. That the case with which this money is gained tends to stimulate expenditure in the conduct of collegiate athletics upon a plane wholly disproportionate to the manner in which the remaining work of the institution is conducted can hardly be questioned...
...Senate over the Versailles treaty there developed an intransigent frame of mind in the so-called "bitter enders" which made impossible the advancement of any proposition for "the" or "an" Association or League. This state of mind nearly wrecked the treaties negotiated at the Naval Limitation Conference in the autumn of 1921, particularly the four power Pacific pact, which was not ratified until President Harding told the Senate, "Either these treaties must have your cordial sanction, or every proclaimed desire to promote peace and prevent war becomes a hollow mockery." The same state of mind thus far has prevented ratification...
...announced. In 1895 Surgeon General Sir David Bruce showed that the parasite (try-panasoma gambiense) was communicated to human beings and to cattle by the tsetse fly. In 1907 the British Government called an international conference to deal with the evil. No help could be found. In the Autumn of 1921 Dr. Kleine went to Africa with a compound. He set up a camp of wooden huts in the interior of Rhodesia. In the Autumn of 1922 Dr. Kleine's party crossed into Belgian Congo. Finally the cure was "proved." Sleeping sickness is a kind of malaria. The remedy...
...exports were the largest for any month since February, 1921; imports ports proved more stationary, since they proved only slightly less than for October or for November, 1922. The large recent exports are mainly due to high prevailing prices for cotton, which figures so prominently in exported commodities every autumn...