Word: swing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas night the University Instrumental Clubs will leave Boston for Washington on the first lap of their extended vacation trip. A swing through West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana will bring the musicians to Chicago and Milwaukee, after which they will head back to Cambridge, stopping for three concerts on the homeward trip, which ends on January...
Since the movement is in the hands of capable and same editors there is no fear that the pendulum will swing too far and crash into sensationalism. Mr. Whipple says that when Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Bridges took over the fate of the dying Atlantic Monthly they put in new blood and "hung quietly in the skeleton closet the notion that the Atlantic was a sort of spinster literary chaperone and that its buff cover conspicuously enough displayed would protect an unattended female anywhere in the world." The new governors of other magazines have done no less. The scarlet...
...Chicago Tribune and Daily News, Frank L. Smith was elected. He came up to Cook county (Chicago) with a lead of 150,000; met George E. ("Boss") Brennan, Democratic Wet, to whom Cook County had given a plurality of 80,000. In New York State the Democratic city can swing the state, but not in Illinois. The Independent Republican crusader, Hugh S. Magill, ran a poor third...
...Freshman football, season will swing under way this afternoon when head coach E. L. Casey '19 will meet all 1930 gridiron aspirants in the Locker Building at 3 o'clock. Candidates for the first year squad will be issued equipment at the Locker Building and are requested to report in uniform for the first meeting of the year. At 1 o'clock this afternoon there will be a gathering of all Freshmen who wish to compete for 1930 football managerial positions...
...swimming right on top. That it was no fish could be told from the ribbons and puffs of silver bubbles it made beneath it. It was one of those forked animals from the land, a man. On board the U. S. S. Maryland, gobs spied the shark, saw him swing over to inspect, and follow at no great distance, their buddy, John Radowich of the Pacific battle fleet, who was trying to swim the 23-mile channel between the California mainland (Los Angeles) and Santa Catalina Island, in practice for a $25,000 marathon swim announced for the near future...