Word: band
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow afternoon, the team will hold its final Cambridge practice of the year. Behind the band the entire student body will parade to Soldiers Field to cheer the team, and sent it off to New Haven to battle the Blue. Not since 1922, when the Haughton system reached its climax, has the Crimson flaunted over the Blue at the end of the game...
...office with him, but he established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 Presidential nomination is settled. His hold on New York State-more specifically New York City-is partly the glamor of the Fulton Fish Market, the "sidewalks of New York" and the band-snorting pow-wow.* But, also, he makes it a point to know more about the government of New York than any of his rivals and he explains it to the people better than any one else...
...Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, even foreigners found it necessary to perform smartly the Fascist salute whenever a band of cheering patriots rushed by carrying a Fascist flag. Dr. Leonard S. Rau, a physician of Lawrence, Long Island, was one of those who imprudently neglected to salute a Fascist banner in Rome. Since the doctor is 65, he was able to make but slight resistance when a Fascist youth knocked off his hat and another struck him with doubled fist upon the temple. Mrs. Rau, with great presence of mind, shrieked "Americano! We are Americanos! AMERICANO!!" Thus appraised of the nature...
...score years since the late John E. Dooley, then owner of Antelope Island, contrived to take there a small band of buffalo. How he managed this feat no one living seems to know. It baffled one A. H. Leonard who bought the buffalo herd last April with the idea of selling the animals to zoos. Not only were the creatures too wild to catch, but the five-mile stretch of water between island and mainland was too shallow for barges, too deep for motor trucks. If John E. Dooley swam and waded his small herd out to the island, that...
...measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will be 14 and 14½ inches long...