Word: latested
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest intercollegiate league has been begun with the avowed purpose of re-awakening college interest in baseball. With this effort the Harvard Athletic Association can sympathize. College baseball has been failing lately before the gains made by track, tennis and other outdoor spring sports. Whether or not new life can be given it through the medium of a league of leading colleges playing for a championship is a question of which the attempted solution will be watched with attention. H.A.A. News
...didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...drink at the rate of 10 Ib. each per annum-fell fourpence a pound (8?), much to the satisfaction of poor and thrifty citizens who would ordinarily vote Laborite. Perhaps some of them will now gratefully vote Conservative. Therefore the angry Labor pixie spat at Conservative Churchill that his latest opus was a "Brib-ery Budget!" After that-cripple or no cripple-it was Parliamentary war to the knife. Not unnaturally, Mr. Churchill, a man of flesh and gusto, who looks as if he had never spent a sick day in his life, watched keenly for a chance to catch...
...first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening, high, low and latest. As the ticker registers a quotation, an operator in the central station of the Teleregister types it on a keyboard. Each depression of the key sends an electric impulse over the wires to the brokers' boards. Western Union, 60% stockholders in the Teleregister Corp., believes it can cope with...
...student cooperation in the promotion of international understanding is once more called to aid the efforts of statesmen and diplomats. The idea is not new, since within the last year or two, similar assemblies have been held at Mount Holyoke, Vassar, and Amherst. But in the development of this latest organization, there is much that may remedy the difficulties that have impeded former attempts...