Word: following
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Texan Howe got some more publicity by attacking Texan White on a question of prime importance to all professional Texans, namely: What does a Texas rattlesnake do when you go to blow its head off with your six-shooter? Texan White had written, old-style, that the snake will follow the movement of the gun-muzzle so closely with its head that you cannot fail to hit the snake's head when you pull the trigger. Texan Howe experimented, fired many a shot at many a Crotalus adamanteus atrox, missed their heads again and again, then angrily wrote...
...market spread to business generally? Through last week, optimism was certainly more pronounced than pessimism. Stock brokers were far more pessimistic than businessmen. Being, especially in the lower ranks, a provincially Manhattan lot, they seemed to think the Stockmarket would be disgraced if Business did not humbly follow its lead. Outside of lower Manhattan, Detroit was the gloomiest spot, the depths being reached by the jocular motor executive who seemed to feel that never again would any U. S. citizen be able to buy anything except a Ford. Following are three typical "results" variously predicted...
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Three performances will be given in Brattle Hall, Cambridge, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 11, 12, and 13, and one in some Boston Theatre on Saturday, December 14. Dances will follow the Cambridge performances...
...results of the second round follow: Ogden Phipps '31 defeated C. W. Mathews 2L, 15-1, 15-2, 15-0; R. P. Honigsberg '30 defeated H. W.' Sibley '31, 15-8, 15-7; P. H. Clark, Jr. '30 defeated M. D. Wheelock '31, 17-4, 9-15, 15-11; E. M. Shelton, Jr. '30 defeated W. J. Govan, Jr. '32, 15-5, 15-4; F. O. Canfield '32 defeated J. C. Howe, Jr. '31, 16-15, 15-8, 10-15, 16-14; C. H. Kawakami '30 defeated L. D. Fiske '32, 15-9, 15-8, 15-4; P. G. Livermore...