Word: washes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...citizens of Sweden do not think so. Their lives are passed in a land where "service" is not advertised but given. From a Swedish telephone operator is expected the sort of unstinted satisfaction which a Swedish housemaid gives by shining the family shoes every day, doing the household wash and energetically scrubbing such members of the family as may deign to take a bath. Last week the telephone companies in Stockholm and Gothenburg announced a new era of luxurious telephoning typically Swedish...
Montesano, Wash...
Both the Crimson and Blue shells have taken the wash from a rival boat once this season. But the only victor over Harvard was the Annapolis eight, generally considered the strongest crew in the country, and the probable winner in the Poughkeepsie regatta Monday. Yale's colors were dipped only to Princeton in an amazing upset on Lake Carnegie, in which the over-confident Eli eight was caught napping. Both of the rivals have beaten Cornell and Pennsylvania; Harvard has defeated M. I. T. and Yale has taken Columbia's measure. So for the first time in many years...
...twenty-fifth anniversary dinner of the Circolo Italiano held last night at the Union, George Hayden Huntley '27 of Seattle, Wash., was awarded the first annual Circolo Italiano Harvard-Italy Fellowship...
...fired at from the shore-probably as a hint to keep midstream lest the wash endanger a levee. The Red Cross quickly collected a $5,000,000 relief fund, began a drive for $5,000,000 more. Pestilence and curtailed water supply threatened crowded refugee camps. Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas asked the Red Cross for enough smallpox and typhoid vaccine to inoculate 25,000 persons. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas suggested a special session of Congress to provide funds for relief work; President Coolidge decided that the emergency would be over before Congress could assemble and make...