Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...virtue of its upset of undefeated Army, the Crimson trio now looms as a leading contender for the intercollegiate crown, as well as being rated one of the country's outstanding teams. The tournament takes place next month...
Chief haggling point of the four-or-five-month session will be the reallocation of ultra-high-frequency, long-distance broadcasting bands (6,000 to 21,000 kilocycles). By an international agreement of 1927, modified in 1932, some 50 channels above 6,000 kilocycles were set aside for longdistance broadcasting. The U. S. walked off with the largest allotment and has plenty of room today for its 13 licensed high-frequency stations. But the European sections of the bands have become crowded with Italy, Germany, Russia and, of late, Britain all trying to influence other nations with short-wave political...
...Evangelical Education Society. Last week there arrived in Manhattan a great Anglican evangelical, Rt. Rev. Joseph Wellington Hunkin, 50, Lord Bishop of Truro, scheduled to be chief speaker at the society's 75th anniversary meeting in Philadelphia this week. An able pulpit orator, Dr. Hunkin will spend a month in the U.S., preach in Episcopal churches and seminaries in Detroit, Boston, Washington, Richmond...
...surroundings were having no good effect on him. As a voluntary patient he petitioned for release, saying he felt much better. Rockland's officials told him that he was an incipient dementia praecox victim, warned him to withdraw his petition, threatened to have his sister sign a three-month commitment. Thoroughly alarmed, Patient Carlin loudly demanded his freedom. After three anxious days, his "sister" arrived and he was able to warn her against signing the commitment which the doctors urgently advised. After two more endless days-up at 5:30 a. m., back to a sleepless...
...major leagues are the four divisions (22 teams each) of England's Football League. Like baseball's pennant winners are the top-ranking teams of each division. Faintly comparable to the World Series are the Football Association Cup* games, which are sandwiched in throughout the eight-month season, come to a grand climax with the Cup Final at mammoth Wembley Stadium the last week in April...