Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bonaventure, 27-0. Many strong teams bullied little opponents into quick submission; Cornell scattered Clarkson Tech.; West Point drilled Boston University, Colgate smeared St. Lawrence, Dartmouth scuttled Norwich, Amherst gobbled Middlebury, Notre Dame routed Loyola, Pennsylvania clawed Ursinus, California smashed Santa Clara U., Penn State walked through Lebanon Valley...
...makes the best of the highspots: In stamping out the virulent hoof-and-mouth disease one inconspicuous scientist had millions of cattle killed and buried, to the funeral dirge of their owners' vituperations. In the hilly North, where burial space was scarce, he drove sick cattle into the valley and blasted the mountainsides to fill in a natural grave. Warned that the curse had spread to wild deer, and assured that shooting a few would scatter the rest, he directed silencers to be used on the guns. Hunters deprived of their prey stormed in wrath, bereaved cattlemen still grumbled...
Unobtrusively, Junior Stinnes left the prison, went to Berlin's smartest Esplanade Hotel (owned by the Hugo Stinnes Corp.), journeyed thence to his home at Mulheim in the Ruhr valley. His trial for attempt to defraud the German Government (TIME, Sept. 24) will probably not take place until next year...
...Davis appeared, to tell about Hawaii's forts and sesquicentennial celebration. The Lakes-to-Atlantic seaway, as an outlet for Midland farm produce, was also on the Secretary's mind. He issued a statement in behalf of the St. Lawrence River route as against the Mohawk Valley-Hudson River route...
...said he had favored the All-American (Mohawk Valley) route for a Lakes-to-Atlantic shipway, but would agree to the St. Lawrence River route (which Hoover is said to prefer) if Congress so chose...