Word: deale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...crews were very evenly matched with all those rowing showing up better than a year ago. In the last race, over a course of three miles, the first two crews finished a scant six feet apart; the stroking in both cases being very fine, showing a good deal of headwork and racing instinct on the part of these two strokes...
...unit will be made by the University authorities, and will be of necessity more or less arbitrary." The report of the Student Council's committee will be closely watched for recommendations on this problem. From the plan's present artificial cross-sectioning Harvard can afford to sacrifice a good deal of the appearance of democracy. The House must never become a temple to a new pantheon of Balanced Forces...
...People elected last week the 71st Congress of the United States, but the first meeting of this Congress does not occur until December, 1929, unless President Hoover should call a special session, which, he indicated might conceivably be necessary to deal with the farm problem. In order to elect this Congress it was necessary for the People to choose 435 members (all) of the House of Representatives, and 36 out of the 96 members of the Senate. This the People apparently accomplished, as the Election did not bring forth any controversy such as surrounded the election of Pennsylvania...
British historians, writing of the great post-War recovery, acclaiming the return to the gold standard and the rebuilding of the merchant marine, will deal briefly and reluctantly with the effort to control the rubber markets of the world. The experiment which began Nov. 1, 1922, which ended last week, will be held an economic catastrophe. Hundreds of fortunes were drawn into the maelstrom of its collapse...
...Mill production was curtailed; papermakers' profits were sliced. (TIME, Aug. 27). Last week, the "biggest" International Paper Co., with mills in Ontario, Quebec, Newfoundland (see Foreign News), contracted with Publisher Hearst on the basis of $50 a ton. Friendly, possibly merging Abitibi Power & Paper Co. made a similar deal with the Chicago Daily News. On the Manhattan stock exchange, International Paper common fell 4¼ points; Abitibi hit a new low for the year...