Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your article on "Boomers & Howlers" (TIME, Aug. 19, p. 11) reported well the serious forest fire situation with which "desperate, haggard foresters'" were coping at the time. But in your footnote you came far short of the fact in giving the number of forest fires in the U. S. last year. Not 6,921 fires, but some 177,000 fires occurred during 1928. . . . C. E. RANDALL Forest Service U. S. Department of Agriculture Washington...
...article printed in these columns today President Angell of Yale discusses an idea which has been in the public eye for some time and one which should seem attractive from a number of points of view to supporters of the policy of the present Harvard Athletic Association...
...there are a large number of one-day holidays this year--October 12th, November 11th, November 28th, February 22nd, April 19th--it seems desirable to make clear the policy of the Dean's Office in dealing with the extension of holidays. Such a statement is especially necessary in view of the fact that several of the holidays occur at week-ends, and one falls close to the date of the football game with Michigan...
...public school list Massachusetts high schools supply four, of which Boston Latin may boast two. There are an equal number who received their training in out of state high schools...
Wherefore, with an eye to feeling out the attitude of that body, the college proconsuls of Socialism have decided not to waste their valuable cohorts on what might not cause a riot anyhow, and only one of their number will be delegated to thrust the radical nunciamento into the hands of all who pass...