Word: carly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another feature of this fall's program has been the added time available for practice. Warm weather has contributed its share, and the four-car scheme will provide an additional period of practice for the University squad till a few days before the Yale game. It is felt that in former years there has been too long an "off-season", with the inevitable letdown in physical condition. This season, with winter tank-work scheduled for after Christmas, there will be only a little over a month of complete rest...
With freight car loadings still at record levels, almost all eastern roads are showing very encouraging earnings. The B. & 0. in September gained $6,643,104 over the same month last year in net operating income, which for the first nine months of 1923 has averaged 16.4% on the common stock...
...telephones for help, it will draw forth from this well the correct equivalent in Chaucerian, Spencerian or Tennysonian diction. No longer will the proprietor of the esoteric den use "Shoppe" for "Shop"; on more can stenographers delude anyone into thinking that Sanskrit is good English; no more will street-car conductors be able to say "Watch yer step" instead of 'Take care of the drop" without meeting the haughty stare and the raised eyebrow of regenerated America...
...Tourist in the Pullman car...
...railroads are severely held to task when a period of heavy traffic causes car shortage and delays in shipments, but get little praise when it is efficiently handled...