Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...single period of 24 hours was celebrated by Italians, last week, as War Declaration? Day, Colonial Day, and the Fourth Centenary of the birth of Duke Emanuele Filberto of Savoy, doughty progenitor of bantamweight King Vittorio Emanuele...
...Colonial Day this same rousing theme was taken as a text by Dictator Mussolini, at Rome, where he proceeded to bestow a coveted medal on the corps flag of the Italian Colonial Air Force. In ringing tones Il Duce declared that during the four-month period of hottest fighting in the two African colonies, last winter, 4000 war flights were made, 100,000 rounds of ammunition fired, and 400,000 pounds of explosives were dropped upon native tribes foolish enough to resist the Italian colonizers...
...with gentle eyes and one of the keenest brains in Europe set Athenian politicians to squabbling furiously, last week and brought down the Cabinet of Prime Minister Alexander Zaimis. Four years ago the famed old man, Eleutherios Venizelos, surprised Greeks announcing his retirement (TIME, 17, 1924). Followed a recuperative period spent at various European spas. Then smart Parisians were made merry by the apparition of a Venizelos once more sprightly and impeccably dandified. He sipped champagne with a zest smacked of youth. He popped in and out of limousines with ladies. He spent some of the money of his rich...
...Cotton Jr. '29 was the first to score, driving the ball between the uprights early in the first period. J. H. Phipps of Yale, a member of the family which donated the playing field, was the outstanding Blue horseman. He shot the first Eli goal in the second chukker, while L. A. Shaw '30 tallied for the Crimson. Cotton crashed the Yale defense for his second score in the third, giving Harvard a 3 to 1 lead...
...deadlock in the fourth period was followed by a long scoring drive from Captain. R. B. Burnett ocC, in the fifth. Then came a burst of speed from the Yale riders, who tallied twice off the mallets of O. M. Wallop and Captain F. C. Baldwin. In the final chukker, Yale tied the count and then drove home the winning goal, Wallop and Baldwin again being responsible for the scores. No substitutions were made throughout the game...