Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote of the I. C. C. on the St. Paul's conversion was 7 to 4. What the vote constituted was approval of a court order made last spring permitting the St. Paul's receivers to put the railroad up at auction and ceremoniously sell it to a new corporation called the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R., through Lawyer Swaine. Before the new company could operate, the I.C.C. would still have to approve its choice of directors...
...potent, perambulating Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who moves constantly about China with a mobile haste, assembled his generals in Chenchow, Honan Province, last week. To them he read a riot act which amounted to the warning that he will positively capture Peking, next spring, and that thereafter "China will not stand further unfair treatment from other countries...
...spring of 1922, Geraldine Farrar left the Metropolitan Opera Company and automatically several of the Farrar operas disappeared from the repertoire. Carmen lingered on, endured several musty performances and snuffed out like the rest. For Carmen may have a handsome Don Jose, a swaggering Toreador, a wistful ingenue for Micaela, but if there is no soprano hot-blooded enough to ape an untamed gypsy and sufficiently magnetic to project her titillating arias across the footlights and into the far reaches of the theatre, Merimée's story becomes cheap and long-drawn, Bizet's tunes trite and shop-worn...
Possibility of Harvard's meeting William and Mary College and the University of Maryland in a triangular track meet in Williamsburg, Virginia, on April 14, is expressed in a dispatch from that city received here yesterday. According to the information received the Crimson 'runners are to spend their spring vacation there, practicing on the track of William and Mary College...
...Spring crew will get under way Monday February 6 at preliminary meetings for all rowing candidates in Smith Halls Common Room. Captain John Watts '28 and Coach E. J. Brown '96 will speak to all upper-class candidates for the University and 150-pound University crews at 5.30 o'clock. Later in the day at 7 o'clock the 1931 candidates will meet to hear Coach R. A. Haines and Captain Watts outline plans for the season and to allow the first year men to sign crew and eligibility cards...