Word: jumpings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producers seemed to have a gentleman's agreement on price. In copper as in other U. S. industries, however, anti-trust laws prohibit definite price agreements. Copper producers now are attempting to curtail production, but the price was back last week to 10? after its recent jump from 9? to 12? (TIME, Nov. 24). The world copper situation is complicated by potential African production which may soon overbalance U. S. curtailment. Tin. Attempts to curb tin production have been hindered by the rivalry between Bolivia and the Far East, and the introduction of much modern equipment into the latter...
This situation also the Government's troops soon had in hand. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the land. Major Franco had to jump into his plane again, fly away. Came a report he had crashed to his death 300 kilometres east of Madrid...
...test that would show what they might do at Aintrée. Entered were three good English horses-St. Roy, Kilbairn, and Man-amber. Best of U. S. entries seemed to be Stephen Sanford's Mount Etna and Mrs. Maud K. Stevenson's Alligator, winner of many jumping races, including the Meadow Brook, Rose Tree challenge and the Maryland Hunt Cup. Round Peytona Brook and over five fences the bobbing horses-17 of them- swung in a half-circle, and down the straightaway past the enclosure. The course was wet and the horses ran warily, in the heavy...
Harvard stops at ostentation, Yale at baggy trousers, Dartmouth at the end of the ski-jump, and Radcliffe at practically nothing. Such, in the monotonous nutshell, are the findings of a group of advanced psychology students from three of these four leaves of the New England clover of culture. Admittedly, and time spent pondering on the intrinsic meaning of the word "advanced psychologists" is a waste of time. The important matter before the readers yesterday of the Front Page, Valhalla of the Fourth Estate, was that the inmates of these four institutions have been forever set apart as types. There...
...their games. Ohio State, completing its own passes and intercepting all others it saw around, took Navy into port, 27 to o. Michigan's passes beat Harvard's attempts at field goals, 6 to 3. Notre Dame. In a class by itself, this amazing football machine takes a sleeper jump almost every week, plays far & wide.* This year there are no "Four Horsemen" in the backfield; a dozen able ball-carriers enable Rockne to work to perfection his system of starting against any opponent whatever combination he thinks is just good enough to win and make the game exciting. Philadelphia...