Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowing will continue for two or possibly, three weeks, with men reporting for individual instruction on the tank and on the machines. There will be another two week period of individual instruction immediately after the Christmas vacation and the spring training will commence after the mid-year examination period. The first two periods of practice are intended especially for Sophomores and any other men who have not had previous upperclass crew experience. The third period will be devoted to all available upperclassmen and those reporting will be divided into eights for regular tank rowing three times a week until...
...During the same period, per capita consumption of alcohol was multiplied more than two-and-one-half times...
Architects. A good-sized yacht can be designed and built in five months. It takes a longer period when the yacht is U. S. designed and German built. The cost of building a yacht in Germany is 50% to 33% less than in the U. S., but there is a 30% tax on foreign-built yachts. U. S. architects are giving an increasing amount of business to U. S. shipyards because they have demonstrated their ability to build yachts more luxurious and equally as sturdy as German-built craft...
...Russell, the 205 pound quarterback, who has a wife and ranch of his own, damaged the Army. Nor was Clair Sloan, who has not missed a kick for point after touchdown since the season began, able by himself to win, though he kicked a field goal in the second period and nearly kicked another to tie the score in the third. In the last quarter Allan, an Army substitute, grabbed a forward pass and made the second touchdown for the Army. The final score was 13-3. Vice President Dawes, in a fur-lined coat, let out a dignified yelp...
...This commission has been appointed to promote a continuous study of the convulsive disorders over a period of years. The term epilepsy is used for brevity, but it has been demonstrated in recent years that epilepsy is not a disease--it is a type of reaction of the human body to different abnormal stimulations: it has various causes. Thus the field of study must be broadened to include the convulsions of childhood, the eclampsia of pregnancy, uremia, asphyxia and other allied conditions. When these are all better understood there will be more chance of helping the chronic sufferer--the epileptic...