Word: recession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire Harvard crew squad saw action during the April recess, when in addition to regular practice, Coach Whiteside raced his University eights on the Charles last Friday, and the 150-pounders rowed against the Kent School eight Wednesday on the Housatonic...
...personnel of two debating teams which will represent Harvard during the spring recess, of two teams which will engage in a duel debate with Yale, and of the team which will match arguments with Princeton speakers on April 19 was announced last night by Coach E. M. Rowe...
...Oedipus Rex" in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on the evenings of April 25 and 26. The performance of this work by Stravinsky is being offered in response to requests by the public. Several former members of the Glee Club will enlarge the chorus. Following the spring recess the Club will begin a series of intensive rehearsals for this final appearance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which closes its season at the end of April...
...scrambled to get into the play-yard of Holy Cross Parochial School in Brooklyn. Above the clanging of ambulances, the exhortations of police reserves, panicky rumors flew. Not until the ambulances had all come and gone was the story truly known: a swarm of little girls, playing games at recess, had chosen the covering of an ashpit for "base." Under their jumpings up and down, the grating had sagged, torn open, tumbled about 20 little compounds of sugar & spice into a dusty depth. Falling chunks of concrete had injured 15, including legs broken and sprained. Remorseful, the nuns of Holy...
...administration, in adopting the plan for a more satisfactory vacation, have followed the weekend proposition to its logical and final conclusion in having the recess not only end but begin on a Sunday. While the projected prolongation for next winter's holidays is not as yet a permanent institution, being in the nature of a special dispensation for experimental purposes, there is every reason to believe that the results will justify a continuation of the policy...