Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant. Accounts varied as to whether the encounter took place 16 or 26 miles off New York. In either case international complications seemed likely-more serious perhaps than those resulting from the sinking of the Canadian rumrunner I'm Alone last spring (TIME, April 1). The I'm Alone was allegedly "hotly pursued" from within the 12-mile limit. The null was without doubt fired upon almost instanter and her whereabouts at the time will make a great difference...
...Last Spring the French and their Continental allies put through with the con sent of the then Conservative British Government a resolution providing in effect that the Preparatory Disarmament Commission should not seek or even con sider ways of limiting either war mate rials held in peacetime readiness by a nation or the number of its trained re serves. Since the military might of France is chiefly based on the huge number of her annually conscripted reserves and the vast supplies of guns, shells and tanks always at their disposal, the pur pose of the French move was obvious. Last...
...recent meeting of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, letters and numerals were awarded to '59 members of University and Freshman spring athletic teams The complete list of awards is as follows...
There are so many rules and regulations in this country about eligibility, professionalism, and good manners in intercollegiate football that the need for a uniform congress of colleges on a football code can hardly be denied. At its annual meeting last spring the National Students Federation of America considered just such a need and voted a resolution to the effect that it would exert all of its influence towards the organization of a conference which would reorganize athletic eligibility rules...
...three years Ernestine Schumann-Heink has been exceedingly busy bidding farewell to her public-concert, operatic, radio. Last spring, sailing for Europe, she announced herself as definitely "through." Teaching was to be her sole occupation. Last week she returned from Europe, limping down the gangplank on a sprained ankle, grinning her great grin. Yes, she told reporters, she was going West. Sound cinemas provided another way for great singers to sing. Three companies had made her offers...