Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the selection of the first eight Juniors to the honored society comes the choosing of 32 Seniors, the first election taking in members of the Class of 1930 this fall. Twenty-five more Seniors will be made members of the Phi Beta Kappa in the spring; but the full quota from the Junior Class, for this year, will be chosen today...
...subject to the approval of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, are the result of the competition which lasted from September 23 until November 12. All ten men are automatically eligible on an equal basis for the University football second assistant managerial competition which will begin next spring...
...were executed in various parts of the Soviet Union. This crime of crimes is committed in three ways: 1) by failing to sow all one's grain fields (a shameful hotbed of this vice is the district of Kuba, where only 4% of the fields were sown last Spring); 2) by refusing to sell grain to the Government collector at the price fixed in Moscow; 3) by inciting others to such "opposition...
Candidates. In the presidential race the Grand Revolutionary Party of President Emilio Portes Gil is running scarfaced, jut-lipped Pascual Ortiz Rubio, one-time Ambassador to Brazil, a party regular picked by Mexico's most potent political boss, General Plutarco Elias Calles who put down the revolution of last spring (TIME, March 4 to June 3) and is now being overhauled by doctors at Paris...
...Mexican Army, more conservative Government policies (notably curtailment of the practice of expropriating large estates and turning them over to the peasantry). In thunderous denunciation of President Portes Gil and Candidate Rubio last week, he shouted that as his chances of election grew their agents were plotting to spring a fake revolution in his name, which the Government would use as a pretext for calling off the election. Paradoxically he also threatened: "If the count goes against me and yet I consider myself to have been elected I will accept the will of the people...