Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief effects of the final changes were two: 1) to limit the life of the new Flood Control Board, by referring to the Mississippi River Commission instead of to the Board the proposed survey of the river's tributaries, a task which will take many years; 2) to lessen the Government's liability for damages and expenses by specifying that damage claims are not retroactive and providing that the U. S. need not buy flowage rights over lands which the river now floods naturally. The face cost of the bill remained...
That feat, which inscrutable "Boss" Irigoyen accomplished without making a single campaign speech, might well attract U. S. attention. Instead, last week, while the final Argentine ballots were being counted, eager U. S. citizens were snapping up in best selling quantities a book called The Road to Buenos Ayres.* The snappers neither knew nor cared about Argentina's President-Elect; but they eagerly scanned the new best seller because it tells how exceedingly women of the class called "White Slaves" flourish in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina...
...number of entrants in the singles race make preliminary heats necessary, these will be rowed at the time scheduled for the final event...
Harvard football will make its final gesture for the spring of 1928 when members of the University squad assemble at the Stadium at 3 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon to compete in the first track meet ever held for football players at Harvard...
...result of such an even contest for points in conceded events throws the final decision as to whether the long line of Yale victories is to be broken, into the second and third places. If Haggerty's figures hold good, a change of two points in the favor of Harvard will result in victory. On the other hand, a failure to make a clean sweep of the two mile, or to take third in the 220 or 440, will give the opponents a lead of even more than three points...