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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a third of the season's games already behind them the University batsmen have settled down to a .299 average, ten points lower than the mark they maintained through the opening games and the Southern trip, but still well ahead of last year's record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Donaghy Takes Undisputed Batting Lead as Team Average Settles Down to .299--Warmer Weather Beneficial to Fielding | 5/3/1927 | See Source »

Skim ten to twenty-eight feet of water off the surface of Lake Ontario. Pour it into the Mississippi River basin from Cairo, 111., to the Gulf. The resultant swamp will be a mild picture of the conditions which Spring-swollen rivers actually produced in the lower Mississippi valley last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Deluge | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...original jurisdiction in capital cases was transferred to a lower court, the Superior Court; and statue provided that "the trial of an indictment for capital crime shall be before three justices" (Acts and Resolves, 1891, 379, back to "two or more" (Acts and Resolves, 1894, 204); and so it remained until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURTS MUST HAVE NEW SAFEGUARDS TO REPLACE OLD | 4/29/1927 | See Source »

Telegraph wires are supposedly high in the air, but in many cases the lower stands of wire either appeared to be resting on the water or were entirely out of sight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REPORTS OF MISSISSIPPI FLOODS NOT OVERDRAWN | 4/28/1927 | See Source »

...practicable, or even desirable, that under these conditions the capable should be penalized to support them? Let us give them measures by which they themselves can tend to relieve their poverty. The experience of our clinics shows that this is possible even with high grade morons. The feebleminded of lower grades we must care for; but let us see that as few as possible of such incompetents are born. They are expensive. Let us try to cut down this expenditure and use the money to promote advisable economic reforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Birth Control Must Accompany Civilization's Further Advance | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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