Word: clocking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arguments on foreign cost, duty, selling price. In 1922 an elaborate display was set before the Senate when John Sharp Williams, onetime (1911-23) Senator from Mississippi, entered the chamber in an absent-minded mood. He fondled a large cloth monkey with a red tail. He wiggled a cuckoo clock so roughly that it crashed to the floor in ruins. Last week the Senate Chamber held another similar exhibition, including toy soldiers, a violin, an umbrella, a bird cage, salad bowls. Asked Senator Barkley of Kentucky: "By what authority have Kresge and Woolworth moved into this chamber?" Warrior Norris picked...
While 50,000 or more people crowd the Stadium for the Harvard-Holy Cross tilt Harvard's Freshman eleven will climax season by battling the Yale first year team on the Second University field today. The opening kickoff of the contest is scheduled for 2 o'clock...
...Harvard University soccer team will meet Brown today at 12 o'clock on the field behind the Business School in the last contest of its preliminary season. Today the eleven will attempt to break the string of indecisive or losing games which has dogged the team since the Northeastern victory. The team was tied by M. I. T. and the Navy, both 1 to 1, and lost to Amherst, 4 to 2, and to Pennsylvania...
...Reverend Charles Edwards Park, Minister of the First Unitarian Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at 11 o'clock...
...little early to talk about Yale, games, even to think about them. In fact the Vagabond was so pleasantly surprised with the news last evening that he lay awake all night listening to the four faced clock tick just over his bed in Memorial Tower. After this warning against undue premature excitement there is no reason for not going now into a few details...