Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford students have been in the U. S. in accord with an annual custom of sending an English debating team...
According to an announcement made last night two class football teams are to meet two class teams from Yale on the class team field tomorrow afternoon. This departure from the usual custom of having the Championship Class teams of the two Universities meet, was decided upon because the best team could not be picked at Yale after five periods of play...
Observing an ancient, time-honored custom, the students not only voted but also fought for possession of the polls. The Baldwin supporters having gained a strategic position by the voting booths were attacked with 60,000 putrescent eggs, countless heads of codfish, and soft rotten fruit. Malodorous and hideous became the normally pleasant sward of the University...
...rushed to completion the new little street of four-room cottages in Thorpe-le-Soken. She proposes to rent them to needy and worthy tenants for only "four and six" a week (4 shillings, 6 pence = $1.09). The ceremony of throwing bread and coals revived an old Essex custom equivalent to "house warming." The flung loaves and chunks are supposed to bring luck and prevent occupants of the new house from ever being without food, warmth...
When the settlers of California dreamed mundane dreams of shiny streets of gold, they turned to an old Spanish custom and called California an El Dorado...