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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Euclid Village, on the outskirts of Cleveland, Ohio, adopted a zoning ordinance to regulate the location of industrial buildings, stores, apartments, double and single houses, the size of lots, the height of buildings. A realty company brought suit, seeking to have the ordinance declared void. It finally reached the U. S. Supreme Court, which last week handed down a decision upholding the validity of zoning regulations. Justices Butler, McReynolds and Van Devanter dissented. Forthwith, many villages and cities began to look at their skylines and contemplate more stringent regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUPREME COURT: Zoning | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...Samaritans. Pilots from the British air bases in Transjordania loaded their planes last week with dates and other comestibles which would not be injured by dropping from a height. Soaring into the zenith they flew up and down the trans-desert motor route between Beirut and Bagdad. Tourists, marooned for almost a week by floods which bogged their motor cars and washed out the railways, gazed thankfully skyward as the British air Samaritans flung man-made manna into their laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

...recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "We have found the great stone courts in which this game was played. The floor measured 100 yards long and 30 yards wide. The court was not enclosed at the ends, but the side-walls were parallel, and rose to a height of 25 feet. At the center of each of these side-walls, near the top, projected a stone ring some 14 inches in 11-ameter, fixed perpendicular rather than horizontally, as is the case with the modern basketball hoop. This arrangement made it necessary for the ball to be put cleanly through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yucatan Mayas Took Their Basketball Seriously 1000 Years Ago--Goals So Rare, Scorer Was Allowed to Loot Spectators | 11/18/1926 | See Source »

NamePosition Class Age Weight Height Bell, Dudley Center '28 20 195 6.1 Brown, G. K. End '28 21 175 5.8 Bruen, A. P. Guard '28 22 195 5.11 Chauncey, Henry Beck '28 21 180 6.2 Clark, E. C. Back '27 23 165 5.8 Clark, Forrester Tackle '29 20 203 6.5 Coady, C. D. Tackle '27 23 195 6. Cunningham, J. S. Back '29 19 175 5.8 Daley, L.F. Guard '27 23 190 6. French, A. E. Back 29 20 175 5.11 Gamache, E. F. Center '27 21 165 6. Goodwin, Walter Guard '29 20 185 5.11 Grant, F. S Back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

NamePosition Class Age Weight Height Baldwin, R. N. Guard '28 22 190 6. Bartell, E. C. Center '27 23 181 5.9 Baruch, E. E. Back '29 20 165 5.10 Benedict, C. P. End '29 19 162 5.10 Blake, E. C. Guard '28 19 194 5.11 Bridges, J. R. Back '28 20 162 5.9 Caldwell, J. M. Center '29 21 193 5.11 Casey, R. H. Back '28 22 164 5.6 Chandler, J. R. Back '29 23 161 6. Caulkins. D. P. Back '27 163 5.10 Parby, R. F. Tackle '27 20 197 6.3 Davis, J. W. Guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRINCETON | 11/6/1926 | See Source »

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