Word: falling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rectifying the Line. Before Flexible Tariff Ridge, where the protectionists awaited the assault, Republican leaders voluntarily abandoned a salient which they feared would fall. The line authorizing the President to increase tariffs after investigating "conditions of competition" in U.S. markets between home-made and imported goods, was given up. General Borah's troops were already massing against...
...heavyweights" grappled, tugged and heaved. Towering John Pesak had wrestled his way half round the world from Nebraska. Husky Joe Zikmund, billed as the "Polish Pachy-derm," tipped the beam at 218 pounds. Statesman Hughes slipped into his ringside seat just as Poland heaved Nebraska for a mighty thumping fall...
...seventh birthday of His Majesty Mihai I last fall, Rumanian officials announced that their boy king would not be educated by tutors as are most Royal men-children but would go to school. Democratic, but not too democratic, the school would be composed of 36 small boys specially chosen from Rumania's eight provinces. Presently the school was organized, photographs appeared in Rumania rotogravures of King Mihai studying geography with his jolly schoolmates, fust as suddenly, the school was disbanded. Last week an inquisitive Bucharest editor learned the reason for the rupture...
Brown Derby Bricks. A house built of bricks without mortar would fall down unless all the bricks had grooves grooving into each other. Of a patented grooved brick and a $100,000,000 concern to market it there was much talk in London last week, the talk emanating from William F. Kenny, who made a fortune out of contracting, is director of Chrysler Corp., became famed last year as Brown Derby's Best Friend. Grooved bricks, said Tycoon Kenny, will reduce building costs by 20% besides successfully resisting Wind & Storm...
...Belisle '31, John Cross '30, J. B. Garrison '31, V. L. Hennessy '30, Guy Holbrook '30, and E. W. Rowell '30 will lead the cheers at football games at Soldiers Field this fall. Cross, Garrison, and Holbrook are letter men in hockey, while Belisle, Hennessy, and Rowell have won their letters in crew, baseball, and track, respectively...