Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...games to be played this spring comprise of the longest Harvard baseball schedules in history. The list announced last night, includes a Southern trip with five games...
Last week it was announced that the Government will rent this house for the President and Mrs. Coolidge to occupy this spring while the White House is being repaired...
...factor. Since he is Commissioner of Concessions, we did most of our business with him. Even a prejudiced person cannot talk to him without realizing the enormous vigor and capacity of the man. He is a 'humdinger.' "I had made something of a study of Russia last spring on a trip with my father-in-law, Samuel M. Vauclain, of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and so Mr. Harriman suggested that my wife and I come along with him for a tour. It was extremely pleasant...
There are two groups of these businessmen. In one group are three onetime advertising men. Last spring they started the "Book of the Month Club." They engaged Editors Henry Seidel Canby and Christopher Morley (Saturday Review of Literature) and William Allen White (Emporia, Kans., Gazette), Columnist Heywood Broun (N. Y. World) and Novelist Dorothy Canfield, to be a committee to vote on new books each month. They notified the publishers that here was a fine chance for them. The book voted "book of the month" would gain distinction (publicity). Also it would be bought by the Club by the thousand...
...grading and seeding of six or seven acres of athletic fields. The rapid development of intramural sports and the need of the Business School for athletic fields have given rise to the necessity of increasing the University's athletic facilities. It is expected, if the work is started this spring, that both the tennis courts and the fields will be ready for use by the opening of College in the fall...