Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will then be coming into the market. Otherwise there would be no storage facilities. ... I have proposed to the Interstate Commerce Commission that they permit railroads to revise freight rates for 60 days so as to place the Kansas farmer on a parity with Canada and Argentina. . . ." Leaving the President's office, issuing his statement to the press, posing for photographers, Senator Capper was not an impressive figure. Nevertheless his words started a visible commotion in the grain world. Next day, the mild vagueness of President...
...tycoon, sat on his Coconut Grove porch and watched one of his white high-sided launches return with indignant house guests from Key Biscayne six miles away. Close behind came a black speed launch in charge of Coast Guardsmen. A rough sea was running. Spray curtains had been in place. The guardsmen had fired five rifle shots at the Matheson boat to stop...
Among the competitors in Class B will be a number of larger schools which ranked near the top in last year's Massachusetts State High School Meet. Brookline High, the victor in Class A of the State Meet last year, is conceded a good chance to place well in the contests at the Stadium...
...first place, daylight saving begins next week and it would prove amusing during an idle hour or so to figure out once more whether one should add that extra hour or subtract it and still catch his train. Having made the computation, he can record the results for use when he next wants to use such information and then if he ever really wants to be sure he can telephone the railroad station...
...term. The Class Officers, in selecting this date, chose it as the most favorable in regard to these contests. As the Dean's Office does not allow the dance to be held during the middle of the week, Friday is the only permissible day on which it may take place. Also the Dean's Office does not permit it to occur after the close of the respective seasons, because it would come during Final Examinations. I should be glad total with anyone who has a suggestion as to a more favorable date. Charles C. Cunningham. Chairman of the Jubilee Commttee...