Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate Public Lands Committee (TIME, Aug. 17, Sept. 14, 21) last week saw a great deal of public land, and heard a great many public complaints. The western Senators who are on the Committee?Stanfield, Oddie, Cameron, Gooding?come up for re-election next year, and are very keen to please the complainants. So much will be heard of those complaints next winter in Washington...
...quarter, Captain M. A. Cheek '26 and J. J. Mather '26 at halfback, and A. H. Miller '27 at fullback. Eight of this eleven are letter-men. Of the others, Salton-stall was a regular on last year's Freshman eleven; Kilgour was on the University squad and saw service in almost every game; and Turner was a Freshman ineligible for the 1928 team...
...incident of the fighting reported from the French front: Major Chartrane, commanding a bat talion of colored troops, ordered an advance. Looking down his line, he saw an officer on horse back. Infuriated by such reckless bravado, he rushed down the line shouting to the officer to dismount. When he came close he discovered that the mounted man was Lieut. De Latour, who had often led his company into battle. A short time before he had been shot dead. Two black sergeants had placed his body on a horse and were holding it upright so that he might once more...
Said the Prwvda's returned Comrade Gulliver: "I saw (in New York City) 7,000,000 two-legged animals penned in an evil smelling cage . . . streets as unkempt as a Russian steppe . . . rubbish, waste paper, cigar butts, ends of lumber and general messiness. One glance and you know no master hand directs . . . Good Lord! anywhere in Moscow it is cleaner. I was choked by the fumes of gasoline . . . No wonder each room in the big hotels has a bath when the people must live in such an atmosphere!!! . . . New York, a stench...
Last week King Boris of Bulgaria, consistently well press agented* monarch, performed an act of heroism. Motoring regally along the road which connects Sumen and Kaspican (Bulgaria) he saw a runaway team approaching, shouted to his chauffeur to stop...