Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...states will elect 34 senators who will take office on March 4, 1927, and thereby determine the political complexion of the upper house of the 70th Congress. The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented...
Johns Hopkins* University, which rates itself and is often rated as the first and last word in U. S. higher education, last week rounded off its semicentennial celebration, begun last winter (TIME, March 1). It was a superlative event, demanding a superlative program...
...years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them (TIME, March 30, 1925), by which a man 40 miles away can see to read a newspaper. Coincidentally, it was also the 47th anniversary of Thomas Alva Edison's perfection of a 16-candle-power electric lamp...
...that it was good. Certain facts must always be taken into account--that there is a relation between the price paid and the dishes served; that no dining hall can be operated economically with less than its minimum number of constant patrons; and that after a time--usually about March or April--the food in any dining hall, however good, tends to seem monotonous...
...prices of stocks, which began jiggling up and down a fortnight ago, bobbed more violently last week. There was a definite downward trend. One "combined average" of prices estimated the general drop on the New York Stock Exchange at 2.93 points, the lowest since the 3.89 drop March 26, when many speculators were wrung. Bond prices rose in usual antithesis to stock drops. No underlying cause is yet discernible for this situation, especially since 250 leading U. S. corporations earned in aggregate $568,000,000 the first half of this year. This, according to the American Bankers Association Journal...