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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tentative announcement of the formation of an intramural hockey league marks one more stage in the present seeking of an ideally exercised University. The process toward attaining the end of athletics for all has been a somewhat slow one, and even with hockey at last gathered into the fold of intra Harvard sports, the curriculum of physical activities is not filled...
...Clarence consented, but would not lead Dick before Walter Biggar, who traveled from Dalbeattie, Scotland, to do the judging. Emma Goecke, 17, his big sister, took Dick to judgment. Clarence was sick to his stomach. If Dick won the grand champion steer prize, that would be Dick's end. He would be sold at auction (as is the live stock show's custom), killed and eaten at some rich Christmas carouse...
...Story. Much as he liked his German guards and his fellow Russian prisoners, Grischa had had enough of prison camp. True, he had heard that Russia was done for and the War near an end-it was blustery March of 1917-but enough was enough, and he yearned Eastward toward his wife and little girl. His monotonous duty was to pile timber in freight cars bound for the front. At the end of one carload he neatly constructed a cavity for himself, and that night slipped out of the bunk house. Under cover of his comrades' merrymaking he crunched...
...Market opens the week wavering, progresses into a slump, ends with a crash. At the end of the week Speculator Smith's investments have shown the following results...
Speculator Smith had committed the imprudence of buying at the top of a tremendous bull market which last week came to an end. In the last three days of trading the market value of listed securities fell off $6,000,000,000. The average of 100 representative stocks (compiled by the New York Times), fell off 15.61 points. In the last 10 minutes of the week's trading, Radio broke 20 points, in the last three days market valuation of radio stock went from...