Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mentioned issue on page 13 in an article entitled "Bombs," you mention a supposed bombardment of a market of several rebel villages in the Riff. Permit me to inform you that your correspondent was . . . misinformed. There are none and have been no rebellious tribes in the Riff since the spring of 1927 when . . . the last of the partisans of Aid el Krim [were] subdued and brought under French control. . . . Since then the Riff has been absolutely peaceful, on the French side of the divide at least...
Last week, while Fliers von Huenefeld, Koehl and Fitzmaurice triumphed in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc. etc., it was reported that the Bremen, still stranded at Greenly Island, might not be able to fly away if it were not fetched before spring thaws softened the ground. To spare the heroes a break in their tour, the War Department last week announced an expedition to Greenly Island in two amphibian planes commanded by Major General James E. Fechet, Chief of the Army Air Corps. A pilot of the Junkers Corporation was taken along, to be dropped on Greenly Island by parachute...
...High Hatters. Neither very funny nor very exciting, this slangy little mystery farce was wafted quietly into a theatre by a draught from the wings when someone left the stage door open to the lazy mid-spring airs of Broadway. It summarizes the doings of two second story men who become inmates in a boobyhatch so that they can practice their profession without legal interruption...
...Ware '30 is the eighth man whom Coach Cowls has selected to go with the team. Ware has been playing on the Second team most of the spring, but by virtue of a recent victory over C. R. Hamlet '30, No. 6 man, he is entitled to a place on the University squad...
Pennsylvania has one of the strongest college aggregations in the country. It defeated Yale with case on May 5 by a score of 7 to 2. The Crimson team will have to defeat either Pennsylvania or Williams and Yale in order to win letters this spring...