Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather conditions permit, the Glee Club will present its first Yard concert of the year on the Widener steps this evening at 7 o'clock. The program is as follows: Ye watchers, Ye Holy Ones xvii Century German Song Drake's Drums Allegri Choruses from the Gondoliers Sullivan The Pedlar Russian Folk Song When His Loud Voice Handel College Songs...
...part of them. Opposed to the principle of dear wheat was Great Britain, a great wheat-buying nation. Argentina (quota: 110,000,000 bu.) was willing to accept a higher price for its wheat on condition that its quota be raised this year 40,000,000 bu. Perfect weather had produced a bumper crop overflowing Argentina's limited granaries. The Argentines want to unload at any price. The three other big wheat-selling countries offered to lend Argentina 20,000,000 bu. of their quotas, provided she would reduce her acreage...
...drought and fair weather had hopelessly split the delegates. And Britain's Sir Herbert Robson, head of the London Grain Exchange, split them further by growling: "I view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named...
...ball foursomes, wherein each pair alternately plays one ball, opened the two days' play last week. It is a game the British are supposed to play better than U. S. golfers. If the game favored the British, desperately bent on winning after seven straight Walker Cup defeats, the weather favored the visitors. The wide greens, big as baseball fields, were sunny and the wind, worst of all St. Andrews' many infuriations...
Last week, after nearly three months of zero-zero political weather, the fog lifted and U. S. airlines got back the mail. Satisfied that the major companies had reorganized "in good faith," Postmaster General Farley awarded temporary contracts to low bidders on 15 of the 21 routes recently advertised by his Post Office Department...