Word: thursday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual fall examinations to test elementary and reading knowledge in erman and French will begin on Monday, September 29 and will last until Thursday, October 2. The examinations will be written and one hour in length...
...races are on. Tomorrow the Waiters of the two camps will meet over the half-mile course. The Crimson waiters are training hard, and will be in bed by midnight tonight in preparation for their struggle in the morning. Thursday will see the Gentleman's Eight racing the Yale graduates, and the race between the Combination Eights. These races will be rowed one after the other shortly after 5 o'clock. Then on Friday at 10 o'clock the 1927 crews will settle their dispute over the middle two miles of the course, rowing upstream, and the Second crews will...
...first prize and was won by one Captain Burman, a real estate agent at Kenya Colony. The Derby (a race of about 1½ miles) was instituted by the twelfth Earl of Derby in 1780 and has been run regularly ever since, at first on the last Thursday in May or the first Thursday in June, but since 1838 on Wednesdays. The stakes were first fixed in 1890 when a minimum of ?5,000 was set each year with the number of entries; all entry receipts, after deduction for second and third prizes, go to the owner of the winner...
...recent French Presidential election reminds one of Mark Twain's famous and often quoted French duel, in which the vanquished gentleman exclaimed with such exquisite pathos. "I die I die that France may live!" With a premonition of what was to befall. M. Painleve remarked on Thursday. "Personalities are nothing. It is the Republic alone that matters." One regrets that such beautiful unselfishness is not always displayed in domestic polities...
...THURSDAY, JUNE...