Word: cotton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the business firms applying for college graduates are cotton goods manufactures, electrical appliance producers, and motion picture companies...
...officers on a promotion list separate from other Army officers; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed a bill raising the Army rank of Dr. James F. Coupal, White House physician, from Major to Colonel. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing $5,000,000 to eradicate pink boll-weevils in cotton States; sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed the Senate resolution authorizing $1,000,000 for a George Rogers Clark museum at Vincennes...
...mind's eye, concepts which confuse the weary brain. Interspersed among these rich rare offerings is the common salt of ingenious inventions, pleasant practical devices which immediately add to the flavor of everyday life. They are concerned with: Clothes. Textiles are nothing but interwoven fibres of wool, cotton, linen, silk. The fibres are cheap enough but the weaving process is costly, making the cloth expensive. In Ireland Inventor B. M. Glover of Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom...
...summary: YALE HARVARD A. Baldwin, Folger, No. 1 No. 1, Glynn Phipps, No. 2 No. 2, Burnett F. Baldwin, No. 3 No. 3, Cotton Scott, No. 4 No. 4, Mandell...
Score--Yale 6, Harvard 4. Goals--Cotton 3, F. Baldwin 2, Glynn, Scott, A. Baldwin, Folger, Phipps. Time--Six chukkers of 7 1-2 minutes each. Referee--W. Cameron Forbes...