Word: weather
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since the fall of Tiensin was largely due to this ultimatum, the interference of the powers with the internal affairs of China is significant. For although the desultory civil was which has broken out with the Spring weather seems to be merely the rivalry of ambitious generals for control of the government, the hegemony of the Far East hinges on its result. It is no secret that the present government is being subsidized by Moscow in order to cloak communistic propaganda directed at the foreign powers who have a foothold there. In an effort to counteract the Soviet influence, Japan...
...Senator James Thomas Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn and his words...
Until nine years ago the Republicans and Democrats of Congress held each spring a duel to death on the diamond. This year plans have been made to resume the annual inter-party baseball game at Griffith Stadium "as soon as weather permits, on some Saturday when the Washington American League team is away from home." The teams...
...several assistant crew managers to a more speedy conclusion. A large cut has already been made and for a foot out from the riverbank in front of Standish Hall. It is expected that the Leviathan will be on the water before the end of the week if the weather continues warm, and the work on the ice continues with reasonable rapidity...
Coach Lydecker expressed himself as pleased with the University turnout. He expects a good season, but on account of the weather conditions the team will get started two weeks later than most of its opponents. The team met with fairly good results last years, losing but two of the eight games. Syracuse and Yale were the only two teams to face the Crimson without being defeated...