Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans for the informal contest are in charge of Coach Wachter and E. M. Kellcher, president of the New England Basketball Rules Association. The most important recent change is the reversal of the rule made last spring limiting the dribble to one bounce, and this will probably be the center of interest in the demonstration according to Wachter...
...Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence in the hearts of Statesmen Quezon and Osmena...
Assembling their summaries, reports, surveys and other economic data, statisticians in the Washington Bureau of Internal Revenue last week finished their logarithmic and slide-rule computations and put the total U. S. income for 1926 at nearly 90 billion dollars?3 billions more than in 1925. It was only an estimate. Two more years of statistical accumulation will be necessary before an actual figure can be determined...
...committee made it plain that it had arrived at its decision with due regard to the fact that Caldwell's ineligibility under the rule affecting athletes who had represented another university in a sport are ineligible to play for Yale in that branch of athletics, had been raised by both Princeton and Harvard, and based its action on the fact that to set the precedent for breaking the rule would be a dangerous step to take...
...students regret that their professor is 70 years old this year and by a University of Vienna rule must retire. Another rule allows him a year of grace...