Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subscriber Gladys Slaughter originally rebuked TIME for not displaying Maracay as the place where "the original bachelor father," President Juan Vincente Gomez of Venezuela, lives with his "Reigning Favorite . . . and what's more at least 60 of his 84 acknowledged children." To Dictator Gomez a thoroughgoing rebuke, if his minions have kept from Subscriber Slaughter the issue of TIME in which her letter appeared...
...declaimed: "To place a tariff on such products would be following the steps of George III whose stamp tax on tea resulted in the American revolution...
...adage concerning the golden virtues of silence might be well enough in its place, but such a policy loses its charm when it is adopted by those who are in charge of announcing the time of examinations. In the present April hours there have been many courses in which were given no other than class room notices, and in some cases these were changed at various times so that unless the class was regularly attended, the student was, "out of luck", to use the words of an instructor...
Because of the Harvard-Yale-Cambridge-Oxford meet, which takes place in the Stadium on July 13, there will be no southern trip this year. The first regular outdoor competition on the Crimson schedule is the Penn Relays on April 26 and 27, in which Harvard will enter teams for the mile, four-mile, and possibly the 440-yard relay contests. A few sprinters, weightmen, and hurdlers may also go down to this meet...
...feature of the track program this spring will be a triangular engagement between Harvard, Brown, and Holy Cross, which will take place on May 4. With the annual University handicap meet scheduled for May 10, the next intercollegiate clash at Cambridge will be with Dartmouth, only a week before the Yale contest on May 25, Nine weeks after the official opening of the Harvard season comes the annual I. C. 4 A. meet at Philadelphia on May 31 and June 1, which completes the regular schedule...