Word: periods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long indoor track season this winter, lengthened by two weeks on account of the Michigan games, the outdoor period has necessarily been shortened. The University and Freshman squads will have only seven weeks of running on the cinders before the Intercollegiate, and only six weeks until the Yale meet, to be held...
Sirs: "In 1906 the Church of Christ, Scientist, had 635 churches and 85,717 members. Last week the results of a new census were published; they showed that the Church of Christ, Scientist, during what has been a period of decline or passivity for many other Christian denominations, has the now number increased of its its churches membership to to 1,912." - 202,098 TIME, and March...
Defense Minister General Wilhelm Groener made a bristling, characteristic speech to the Reichstag, last week, roundly declaring that "the present alarming increase in suicides among German soldiers" is directly due to a clause in the Versailles Treaty which prevents Germans from enlisting in the Reichswehr for a period of less than twelve years...
...conservative cousins which had spent five months growing in the old-fashioned way. Many have been the experiments in speeding up the growth of wheat, but never has the crop been of such quality, the time so short. The professors give the credit to the length of the light period. The lights were turned on for the most part for 16 hours a day, but when the light exposure was doubled, the plant development proceeded four times as fast, and when the light was applied for 24 hours the growth was "astounding." The heat*rays of the lamps made these...
...English. In the first of the Drury Lane playbills the dramatis presonae, the names of the actors, and the author did not appear; these features were printed for the first time on the bills of 1714. It is interesting to note that many of the stars of this period resolved upon several alleged farewell performances before actually retiring from the stage...