Word: friday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch football crown will be contested for this afternoon by the Smith Hall team and Sigma Alpha Mu contingent. The former won the interdormitory series, the latter the interfraternity series. Both teams were slated to meet Friday, when the bad weather, the indisposal of some of the members, and the absence of others, made a postponement to this afternoon necessary. Both team are ready today, however, to stake their claims to the intramural crown on a single game at 3 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Medals will be presented to all members of the winning team...
...During the Friday evening cinema show on deck, a mustang wave leaped over the rail and soused part of the audience. An hour later, the Maryland was "in it"-a nor' caster in the Gulf of Tehuantepec ("Hatteras of the Pacific") roaring over from the Caribbean across Guatemala and lower Mexico. One comber smashed a port in the Hoovers' quarters in the fantail stern, flooding their dining room. "This is terrible," gasped an attaché. "Oh, I've seen worse," shrugged Mr. Hoover. He was up, wandering about in a bathrobe, several times during the night...
Machines. Hopelessly overtaxed, the market's machinery halted Friday night, attempted to catch up over the weekend. Early in the week, the ticker had run two hours behind the market. Exchange authorities ordered the omission of volume figures on the tape. To supply the press with the figures, Western Union sent to Chicago for telegraphic printing machines, chartered six compartments of the Twentieth Century Limited to carry them swiftly and luxuriously to Manhattan. Even without volume, the ticker ran 49 minutes behind in Friday's session...
...lectures will be given in Emerson J, at 8 o'clock on Friday evenings, December 7 and 14, and January 11, 18, and 25. They will be open to the public free of charge...
...indoor polo season will start Friday, when the first practice on the new indoor field at Commonwealth Armory is held, it was announced yesterday by F. H. Gade '31, manager of the University polo team...