Word: strong
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After four months of mulling, the Ways & Means Committee last week delivered to the House a ponderous Bill to revise the tariff for the benefit of the farmer?and others. Farmers, through their Congressional representatives, surveyed the measure suspiciously, expressed strong disappointment, began to kick dirt. Great was their surprise when other interests affected by this 85,000-word measure were, for different reasons, no more pleased than they...
...surprising because daughter and mother have not seen each other since the one's babyhood and the other's flaming youth. Also, because the mother, as a nightclub hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed, the picture is worth seeing in spite of several long, slow dialog sequences. Best shot: Miss Dresser making the no-good slap her face to impress her daughter...
What happened after Dr. Shields ducked under the desk was a shower of eggs, rocks, fruit, skins, fish. Then came the students, 400 strong, irate, crying, "Lets get Shields! Hurray for Wayman...
...University tennis team stacks up against the Pennsylvania netmen on the Divinity Courts today at 2.30 o'clock, for the first strong opposition the Crimson players have met since Columbia was defeated, 5 to 4, a month ago. Since the Columbia match the local outfit has won six matches by shut-out scores, but it is doubtful if they will keep this record clean against the Philadelphia...
...Dartmouth track team, 41 strong, arrives in town tonight with high hopes for victory in the Stadium tomorrow. Only once, in 1911, has Harvard bowed to the Indian track and field men, but this year the visitors seem unusually strong for a dual meet. Coach Farrell is not up to his usual optimism as he hears tales from Hanover of 6 foot high-jumpers, 49 second quarter-milers, and 45 foot shot-putters...