Word: customs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spinning along through sidereal space as is their custom, an enormous, hot heavenly body and a tiny cold one arrived last week at relative positions such that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with white, blue and green scum, which spun along hard by the tiny cold body. That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west...
...University grapplers will attempt to win their second meet of the year when they oppose Syracuse for the first time in Hemenway Gymnasium at 8 o'clock tonight. H. A. A. books will admit holders to the meet, as has become the custom in the basketball games in Hemenway Gymnasium...
...oyster in Grimsby, England (my native city), with two ordinary mice trapped by the neck and killed. The custom is to feed oysters with barley water in a dish. The oyster one day with shell open was attacked by mice and closed his shell. Thousands of picture cards were sold by Lowthian Bros., photographers. I would not have believed it if I had not seen the animals in the photographer's window. Live oysters are sure mousetraps...
...industry, now worth three billion dollars, held its show again (TIME, Jan. 11). Stuffing bales of order-slips into its pockets, it shook hands with itself and prepared to move its shining, multi-colored wares from Manhattan to Chicago for the other big display that has become an annual custom...
...University debating team, coached by Francis Bowman '24 will open its schedule in the Intercollegiate League when it meets Wesleyan in Paine Hall tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. Admission will be free, which is a departure from the usual custom...