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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Football authorities differ as to the advisability of the now ruling. William J. Bingham 16, Director of Athletics, is among those who feel the "dead fumble" rule will rob the game of one of its biggest thrills. On the whole, however, opinion seems to favor this new evidence of the present tendency to sacrifice the spectacular in football in the interests of greater precision...
Significance. If Rumania actually did receive a secret assurance that Soviet Russia has renounced her claims to Bessarabia, that was the biggest news in Europe last week. Secrecy may well have been necessary, in order to give the Soviet Government time in which to break gently to Soviet citizens, school children and map makers the news that Bessarabia has been in Rumania for the last eleven years...
...films is to cover as nearly as possible the complete range of plant evolution from fundamental to highly developed forms. Plants that are adapted to special as well as normal environment, will be photographed. For instance, the botanical cast will include such participants as the palm with the biggest leaf in the world, and the sensitive tree which throws off a fluid when prodded. One of the main purposes underlying the scenarios is to demonstrate how plants are made to serve economic uses...
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Most recently, Lawyer Longley has been in London, organizing the English Ford corporation, biggest of all automobile corporations established on the other side of the Atlantic, with a stock issue of $35,000,000. It was not Lawyer Longley's fault that Manhattan bankers played a joke on Mr. Ford by buying the stock which Mr. Ford had intended for British ownership...