Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation...
...snorers were nudged awake by revolvers in the hands of a band of masked men. Out into the street the sleepy strikers were marched to the tune of random shots. With crowbar and sledge hammer the invaders-several scores of them, it was too dark to count accurately-set about wrecking the flimsy frame building. Window glass crashed out upon the street and through the aperture went sailing the union's membership and financial records until the sidewalk was white with torn paper. With the headquarters in ruins, the wreckers moved two doors down the street to a striker...
...other relay event in which Harvard placed was the sprint medley in which a team composed of G. A. Tupper '29, T. F. Mason '30, V. L. Hennessy '30, and David Cobb '31, came in fourth. New York University, the winner in this race, set up an astonishing record of 3 minutes, 28 and 1-5 seconds, breaking the previous mark by six seconds. The event is run in four legs of 440, 330, 330, and 880 yards respectively. The running of Tupper who covered the quarter in 49 and 3-5 seconds featured from the Harvard angle...
...Tech Set for Two Mile Grind...
...though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery could work smoothly and rapidly enough to give him his wish. If the Dawes Plan breaks down, European reconstruction may be set back ten years...