Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local college hockey season, which was opened last week-end by Boston University and M. I. T. and in which Harvard and B. U. will play the second chapter when they square off at the Garden on Wednesday night, this year seems destined to be governed by the best officiating which local teams have seen in many years. At a recent meeting of New England hockey mentors and officials, definite steps were taken to have a uniform interpretation of the rules at all the games...
...scholastic award known as the Edward Whitaker Prize Scholarship has been established at Harvard, according to an announcement by University authorities. This scholarship was made possible by a gift of Mrs. Samuel Davis. Later a second Edward Whitaker award will be established...
Battle Plane Prejudice. To the desk of Comrade Litvinov in the Kremlin came intelligence, last week, that a ship had just cleared from New York, bearing to the Chinese Government the second consignment of a $1,000,000 order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson...
...game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received a cablegram saying that Panama-even great Panama-stands with Mr. Stimson...
...seasonal present to its readers, that elegant monthly The Sportsman issued an elegant supplement, "Fox Hunting Formalities," by J. Stanley Reeve, seasoned and punctilious sportsman of Haverford, Pa. Member of the Radnor and Whitemarsh Valley Hunt Clubs, second-cousin-in-law of the late Theodore Roosevelt and of the late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds...