Word: fastings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley next month or pay their own expenses on another ship. Statesman Stimson had wanted to travel on the fast S. S. Bremen. The Comptroller's authority: The Merchant Marine Act of 1928 which specifies that U. S. officials must travel on U. S. ships "whenever available." To make her "available" the George Washington will be held over two days...
...pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
Before the hockey season opened, officials of the National Hockey League passed rules designed to make a fast game a fast scoring game. They ruled that the forward pass, hitherto barred except in a team's own territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate...
Boston Bruins. The present champions, and still apparently the best team in the League. Strong on the defense, fast on the offense, fortified everywhere by Eddie ("Shining") Shore, loose-jointed and heavy-hipped, who with a sad look on his pale, wide face spills opponents ferociously...
...hard and fast vacation rule works especially harshly on those who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Inasmuch as traveling time is allowed only at the beginning of holidays, the necessity of returning from a distance to attend one class is doubly irksome. A notoriously unfortunate case this year is of one man who must return three days early from California in order to attend one Friday class...