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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., November 5.--After four hard games in so many weeks, Yale will have a slight breathing spell this Saturday before encountering Princeton and Harvard. The Blue eleven was outrushed and generally outplayed by Georgia, Dartmouth, Brown and the Army, but still remains as one of the few unbeaten, teams in the East. Fast thinking, and a knack of taking advantage of every break, has enabled the Bulldog successfully to weather an extremely difficult schedule...
...character may be, he is at least entitled by the rules of the game to fair play. Under him, Spain may weather the anxieties of the moment and emerge triumphant, bearing the banner of democracy on high. His downfall, while it would relieve him of onerous duties, would certainly spell a prolonged period of political anarchy for Spain, in which the force of corruption would be let loose. He is the figurehead through which progress can be made ; without him Spain must go the way of the Spanish republics, the way of end less revolutions...
...several campaign leaders, not satisfied with the use of the radio for political spell binding, have resorted to the use of the talking moving picture, a new invention, not yet perfected...
Much of the reverence long held for Standard Oil companies by the investing public bids fair to depart after the recent spell of omitting dividends. In rapid succession directors of Atlantic Refining and Standard Oil of Kansas have decided to give nothing to stockholders, which goes to show that even Standard Oil companies are human and fallible...
...week they were stationed at the small village of Brough on the Humber in England, having an "easy time"- though working feverishly all day, overhauling their motors, reconditioning their planes-and purchasing new cold-weather outfits for their passage over the North Atlantic. Woolen underwear and fur-lined coats spell many gallons of gasoline. Everything unessential must be discarded, and even safety razors must disappear. Their fellow citizens will welcome gallant officers who are heavily bewhiskered...