Word: hills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
Professor A. L. Rotch dies--Harvard geologist founder and director of Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory...
Wayne F. Anderson, Andover; Edward L. Burwell, Exeter; Louis R. Chauvenet, Belmont Hill; Franklin N. Cunningham, Milton Academy; Richard D. Edwards, Choate; David D. Henry, Country Day School; Spender Klaw, Loomis School; Horace G. Lunt, Kent School; David A. Park, Gunnery School; John S. Parker, Jr., St. mark's; Howard A. Reed, Andover; Elliot L. Richardson, Milton Academy; Bernard D. Shea, Roxbury Latin; Charles C. Smith, Middlesex School; Archibald H. Spaulding, Jr., Thayer Academy; Richard S. Suter, Groton; Stephen Winship, Andover...
...Jadwiga Jedrzejowska, Polish girl tennist: the St. George's Hill Championship; 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the final against U. S. Champion Alice Marble, for whom it was the third consecutive defeat in minor English tournaments the past month; at Weybridge, England...
...trees and haloed lamps. Misty forms stroll arm in arm along the banks of the swan pond. Like an oasis shunned, the Common lies abashed under the roof of pale clouds. Autos beat a noisy circle about the park, tires licking the pavement. Ahead tower the fortresses of Beacon Hill, cold and Puritanical...