Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the league opened its season a month ago, only five teams entered the lists. The addition of touch football to the prescribed sports open to Freshmen gave the league a tremendous impetus, and teams enlisted rapidly until at one time fifteen combinations were included in the league. Bad weather finally cut short the completion of the schedule...
While U. S. clerics thus fulminated some British newspapers devoted scarcely ten lines to Bishop Manning's remarks, and the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to open his lips. Frenchmen and Italians read attentively a statement by Monsignor Massimi, Auditor of the Sacred Rota: "The declaration that the Rota's action was an intrusion and an impertinence leaves It unmoved because this is not the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. . . . The Catholic Church deems the Rota capable of examining the annulment not only of Protestant but of Jewish and Moslem marriages if the grounds are sufficient according to canon...
...seemed ruined when Prohibition was put into effect. In St. Louis their factories covered 70 city blocks. They had 7,000 to 8,000 men all specialists in beer-making and selling; $50,000,000 invested in tangible properties; in calculable goodwill. It cost them $30,000 to open their doors each day, and they might no longer make beer...
...camp on lower Rock Creek the guide caught his limit (twenty fish) and gave them to us to take back to Pasadena. He cleaned them, hung them up for the night to dry, packed them in canvas, and then inside a roll of pedding which we were not to open until the fish were to be eaten. They were carried two days on mules, one day through the heat of the desert, and cooked and eaten in Pasadena, perfectly good. "Ed", the packer, sneered at ice, and said he would show us something better, which he certainly...
...great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such different tastes as George of Buckingham and Windsor and Calvin of Washington and Plymouth get together--even over a telephone. But as it is there will probably...