Word: storming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were reported "in an unfortunate condition." In September, 1929, "the avenues of royal pinon and taberind were dashed to the ground," and on this date in 1935, according to the CRIMSON, "many of the buildings were razed, and the greater part of the garden stock was severely injured. The storm stripped the citrus trees of their fruit and about 300 specimens were badly damaged...
Over 90 students registered yesterday at University Hall, an unprecedented number of late arrivals. They will not, however, be subject to the $5 fine usually invoked in such cases, because of extraordinary difficulties in transportation caused by the storm. University Hall officials stated that both Freshmen and upperclassmen were numbered among tardy students...
...expected that a large number of men will arrive today as well, and special provision will be made for them at University Hall; however, it was indicated that students arriving late for reasons other than the storm would not be given special consideration...
...eyed, stocky, 70-year-old President Arturo Alessandri, "Lion of Tarapaca," has represented a political stability of sorts. During his last six years of the Presidency he has nipped all incipient revolts in the bud. Fortnight ago, however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis' Presidential candidate...
Registration officers in a dozen graduate schools estimate that there will be a slight increase in the total enrollment of graduate students this year, in spite of the temporary deterrents of flood and storm a CRIMSON survey revealed yesterday...