Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourth group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last spring a Bell Telephone laboratory accomplishment, last week was a General Electric and Radio Corporation of America practical device...
Although the Department of State refused to say why, there were two good reasons for raising the ban: 1) French industries are so conservatively managed, offer such sound investment opportunities, that U. S. financiers are impatient to do business with them; 2) Because a French general election looms this Spring, it is prudent for the U. S. to make a friendly gesture, tending to further the election of Deputies favorable to ratification by France of the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement...
...Harvard Dramatic Club has opened a competition to student authors for the best play written for production by the club this spring. The contest is open to undergraduates only. No prizes are offered for the play, but the winning contributor will have the backing of the Dramatic Club in getting producers to put his play on other stages...
...order that rehearsals for the spring production may begin early in March, all manuscripts must be handed in on or before February 20 at Westmorly Court...
Turning his attention to pole vaulting, the mentor considered the results of the past spring, when in one afternoon, 13 men had vaulted as high as 13 feet. "Sabin Carr holds the world's record, having cleared the bar at 14 feet. Now that Hoff has joined the professional ranks, there is little chance of the Yale track captain's losing his honors. Barnes, who forced Carr to his record with a vault of 13 feet nine inches, ought not to be very far behind the record-holder. The best men Europe can put against us are Dane...