Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Youngest and most delicate of George V's four sons is Prince George, 26, who has to be careful of his stomach. "Chronic seasickness" was his reason for leaving the Royal Navy last spring. Later he had to give up even desk work at the Foreign Office because of "digestive trouble" (TIME, July 29). Last week it was an nounced that prudent dieting has soothed and strengthened H. R. H.'s gastric ap paratus. On and after Oct. i he will be back again at his Foreign Office stint...
...indignation, of Curacao-not the liqueur but the island where it was invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists of four officers...
Professor Woodberry was the first of the speakers to talk during the spring of this year, under the provisions of the Morris Gray '77 fund for contemporary poetry...
...Boston audiences" continued Mlle. Keila, "like jugglers. I am not a juggler." She expressed relief that in two weeks the show was to move to Spring-field, which, it was understood, though better than Boston, was still within the boundaries of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
...Class A tournament, the favorite and seeded number one is Harris Coggeshall 1L a graduate of Grinnell College in 1928, and ranked fourteenth in National Men's Singles. Number two is Arthur Ingraham '30, who played second man on the team last year, and was elected Captain for next spring. He is followed by W. L. Breese '30, whose work at number three position on last year's undefeated team is well-remembered, and R. A. Murphy '33, a former National Indoor Junior Champion...