Word: break
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard renewed football relations with Dartmouth in 1922 after a break of 11 years. During that interval Harvard teams had reached a high peak of efficiency and reputation, and The Big Green teams had also fought their way to a top notch ranking, It was, then with anticipations of a hard-fought contest that the spectators filled the Stadium in 1922. Nor were they disappointed, for from start to finish the game was replete with thrills. With the score 6 to 3 in favor of Harvard, and only a few minutes to play, Dartmouth started a march into Harvard territory...
...deadlocks, a Harvard, and then a Dartmouth victory, preceded five straight Crimson wins which led up to the break of 1912. The contest in this year, the last before relations were resumed in 1922, was one of those seesaw affairs, with both teams fighting bitterly for an advantage, which finally came to Harvard through the talented toe of C. E. Brickley '15. Something in the way the Dartmouth forwards handled Brickley after one of his other attempts at a field goal which went wide of its mark, or a desire to put Cornell on the Crimson schedule...
...University of Virginia's businessman speaker last week. He waited for the restless students to quiet down, then said: "The real responsible leaders in Wall Street today are big men- men of brains, men of vision, men of honor. There are scrubs, too, to be sure, for they break into every place. They create much of the public misunderstanding and criticism of Wall Street. But the scrubs do not run Wall Street any more than they dominate this beautiful university of culture...
Under the liberties of the McFadden act, the Continental & Commercial banks might merge. Last week they did so; pooling resources of nearly $640,000,000. Chicago now has the sixth largest bank in the U. S.* But Chicago must break a habit learned in 1910 when the Commercial National Bank consolidated with the Continental National Bank to form the Continental & Commercial National Bank. After Dec. 1, Chicago will be obliged to say Continental National Bank & Trust...
...manager would often gather up the last of the waning gate receipts and catch the midnight flyer for Manhattan, leaving ingenue and heavy to learn milking. But Actors' Equity, the protective union of the theatre, has in a great measure eliminated such incidents. Managers are protected against actors who break contracts; they are henceforward not allowed to act in any Equityontrolled theatre. On the other hand they are obliged to file a bond with Equity of sufficient size to pay each member of the cast a week's salary and his fare to Broadway. Many of the profession's finest...