Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union has announced that Rooms A and B are to be converted into private dining rooms. These rooms accommodate 25 and 100 diners respectively, and mark one more step in the extension of Union dining facilities. The upstairs dining room was opened last winter. The patronage of the Union this year has been the largest ever, and is steadily improving...
...receipts indicate the amount the Government would expect to receive under the present tax laws. The surplus therefore represents the amount available for tax reduction. The expenditures represent the total of the appropriations asked by the Administration. The itemized list of these appropriations made last winter for the present year is as follows...
Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an assembly of the chiefs at which it was allegedly decided to excommunicate every Druse who should fail to devote himself to the long-standing struggle with the French (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante...
...rejoicing, blurs in the minds of U. S. children reared in Jewish faith because it occurs so close to Christmas. Christmas comes Dec. 25, Channukah the 25th of Kislew (Jewish calendar). At both, children are coddled, given presents. And both, curiously, merged centuries ago with heathen celebrations of the winter solstice, the turning of the year...
...special trains, which had paused on their dash southward only to take on ice, 1,000 delegates to the 14th annual convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America were met at Winter Park, 140 miles from St. Petersburg, by the St. Petersburg Chambermen of Commerce, with several squads of motorcycle policemen and 54 enormous motor busses, which shimmered in the station-yard like a caravan of painted elephants. Handshaking, backslapping, ensued. The bankers dispersed to divert themselves before settling down to the serious sessions of boosting, debate, criticism which would begin next...