Word: recession
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jennings Bryan's nomination was a weak attempt that soon died out. When the result of the ballot was read, it was learned that Carter Glass had 710 votes or 3 too few for the nomination. A motion to nominate him by acclamation failed and after a ten minute recess the seventh ballot was taken. Amid Harvard cheers and riotous disorder, a strong crowd came out for Mr. McAdoo, but glass received the nomination by the margin of three votes. Senator Walsh of Montana was given the nomination for vice president by acclamation SUMMARY OF BALLOTING...
From researches recently conducted by Professor William Lyon Phelps it appears that the day when the main delight of the vacationing college student was light musical comedy is definitely past, Professor Phelps catechized his class in Contemporary Drama at Yale shortly after the spring recess and made the startling discovery that the modern university undergraduate no longer follows in the dreary wake of the t. b. m. Elevated drama is now the mental restorative of the jaded scholar, and girl and music shows and boisterous revues are relegated to the limbo which conceals the Gaiety and the Old Howard...
During the Parliamentary recess, ex-Premier David Lloyd George . found time to scurry back to Wales and, inhaling there his native air he became frisky, allowed his political tail to wag him and demonstrated, as he has often done before, that his bark is worse than his bite...
When Mr. William H. Geer Director of Physical Education in the University, delivered the opening address at the Eastern District Convention of the American Physical Education Association, held in Atlantic City during the Easter recess, he instigated a movement with such far-reaching results that it remains a topic of interest wherever the subject of Physical Education is discussed...
Beginning with the opening of college after the spring recess, all Freshman physical training will be conducted out of doors. No exceptions will be made except to those men who have not yet passed their swimming test, and to manager candidates who find it necessary to get their exercise during morning periods...