Word: unites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Belgians began suddenly last week to think in belgas. Overnight King Albert, by royal decree, proclaimed the creation of a new monetary unit, the belga, worth exactly five Belgian paper francs and exactly .209211 grams of gold...
During the week General Obregon held a grand council of war at Guadalajara. His intentions, as announced by subordinates: 1) to confiscate all lands held by the Yaqui in their principal stronghold, the State of Sonora; 2) to distribute the Yaqui themselves throughout Mexico on small units of land, thus definitely finally breaking up the tribes as a national unit; 3) to employ in accomplishing this stupendous task every weapon of modern warfare, including poison...
...elected captain this week. The mediocre record of the team to date has been largely due to lack of team-play, but definite improvement along this line has been noted in the past ten days, and the election of a captain should weld the eleven into a unit...
...well as coaches' living quarters, the third floor consists of one large room which is used for housing the team before games, or for taking care of visiting squads. The Field House is connected with the gymnasium by a split staircase, and is an essential addition to the athletic unit...
Coach Farrell emphasized the fact that the training table's primary purpose was not so much to standardize the food which the athletes ate as to enable the men to eat regularly and as a unit. The facilities at present are such that only the major sport teams can enjoy this advantage, and then only when they are in strict training. During the remaining part of the year the athletes have their meals, as do the majority of the undergraduates, first at one restaurant, then at another. "The teams would be in infinitely better condition at the beginning trainer...