Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer has just read about the Supreme Court decision in regard to the Fuller Brush Co. [TIME, March 22]. The issuance of door-to-door peddling licenses has gotten to be quite a racket in some of the smaller towns of this Slate. If a farmer goes to town with a load of peaches or watermelons they take his finger prints like he was a criminal. Some peddlers have learned to drive by the Mayor's home and leave a big watermelon or bushel of peaches. Then things are hunka dory. Insurance men get in a town and make...
...preliminary meet the Harvard Freshman lost to Yale 21 1-2 to 4 1-2 Winners for Harvard were Arthur Page, who kept his slate clean by taking a decision from Blackmon of Yale, and Gardiner, who threw Cocchart in 2:23. Daughaday of Harvard drew with Schwab of Yale in an overtime bout...
...pound class: Slate (T) defeated Lindenfelser (H) by decision, Time...
Another clean slate survived the evening when John Harkness, Crimson 175 pound entrant, defeated Joe Gifford with a time advantage of six minutes and 45 seconds. The other local boy to make good was Brooks Cavin, who took the 145 pound decision from Fred Caspers of Princeton. Harvey Ross in the 118 pound class, Louis Ach in the 126's, Dick Lindenfelser, Lorrin Woodman, and Gerald Piel in the 165's were the other Crimson representatives...
...mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom days, had 103 children, of whom 20 sons were living at his death. To simplify matters and start with a clean slate, Murad's legitimate heir put his 19 brothers to death, sewed his father's seven pregnant concubines in sacks and threw them into the sea. This violence was deprecated, and thereafter the heirs-potential were merely locked up for life. Some of these prisoners succeeded to the throne...