Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...including newly-elected members, would meet on a set date (Jan. 2) each year and remain seated until its business is finished, instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris's resolution beyond recognition. Then, as usual, it voted down the whole proposal. "Lame duckery" will continue. Representative La Guardia...
...Englishmen began to take serious heed when the Manchester Guardian cut loose from decorum and stated that it would be "no picnic" to whip Ibn Saud. Meanwhile the British Laborite Daily Herald cried in frank alarm: ". . . This country is on the verge of war not with a few scattered tribes but with a monarch who has proved his ability and military strength and whose easy defeat cannot be assumed...
...failed when I was young." The boom in Michigan lumber came and went. He was still poor. He went to the Coast. He was 50 before he had enough money to buy a sawmill. Transportation was bad and expensive. He bought the Newsboy, a 300-ton ship, to take his lumber to ports along the Pacific Coast...
...third annual University swimming meet will take place in the Big Tree Swimming Pool on Wednesday, April 4, at 3.30 o'clock. The meet will be held under the regulation collegiate rules and will include the following events: 100-yard four man relay, 200-yard free style, 50-yard for beginners, 200-yard breast stroke, 100-yard back stroke...
...pole vault promises to be a close fight between F. B. Clark '28, B. G. Burbank '28, and Prout, Michigan's veteran. F. T. Burgess '30, Harvard's only entry in the high jump, will have to outdo Waldo, who has cleared 5 feet, 10 5-8 inches to take second in the recent Big Ten meet...