Word: cames
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pittsburgh Pirates. Veterans in mustard plaster sweaters, they found the new rules to their liking, recently came from behind to score ten goals against Toronto in one of the weirdest games ever played, then relapsed into the League cellar...
Famed as leader of "calendar reform" is George Eastman. Last week to his side came Julius Rosenwald's Sears, Roebuck & Co. which announced it will operate next year on a 13-month schedule. To its customers, the introduction of some new month such as "Sol" will mean nothing, but 40,000 employes will have to consult their company's new calendar to learn when payday falls...
...Zvezvan, Jugoslavia, a wedding party was proceeding to the church when a white-hot meteor 16 inches in diameter hurtled into a carriage in front of the bride's, killed one guest, injured another. The bride fainted, came to, went on with the ceremony...
Boston claims the distinction of being the most musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...
GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS- Harriet Connor Brown-Little, Brown ($3). As it must to all men and women, as it did even to Methuselah, Death came last January to Grandmother Brown. She was 101 years, nine months old. One of her daughters-in-law wrote this book about her. It won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Biography Prize...