Word: winters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sailing time drew near it became more and more apparent that naval reductions, Prohibition treaties and all other specific topics were receding in the Prime Minister's mind, that he was setting out for a goodwill trip much like Herbert Hoover's tour of Latin America last winter as President-elect. His final word as the boat-train pulled out of crowded Waterloo Station was: "I hope to be able to do something to narrow the Atlantic...
...Calendar" divides the year into 73 weeks of five days each. A week consists of four work days and one day of rest. Saturday, Sunday and all religious holidays are abolished but there are five national holidays: Jan. 9, anniversary of the massacre of Socialists in front of the Winter Palace in 1905; Jan. 21, anniversary of the death of Lenin; May 1, international Labor day; Oct. 26, anniversary of the October revolution of 1917; Nov. 7, anniversary of the flight of Kerensky. Important is the fact that these five holidays are the only days when Soviet factories and offices...
...Reference to Briton Hadden, Founder & Editor of TIME, who died aged 31 (TIME, March 11). Shortly before his fatal illness, Editor Hadden had been accepted as a better-than-average risk by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. A keen baseball player, he exercised summer and winter. His physicians declared his death to be due to septicaemia (resulting evidently from the scratch of a cat), which might have overcome the most perfect physical specimen...
Squash has already proved so popular this fall that the courts are now being kept open on the winter schedule. They may now be used from 8 o'clock in the morning to 9.30 o'clock in the evening. . . . Among the changes that spectators will notice in the Stadium on Saturday will be the transfer of the Harvard and visiting substitutes from the benches they occupied on the side-lines in previous seasons to seats in the regular stands. . . . General Manager Getchell, Crimson ticket king estimates that Saturday's attendance at the Stadium will reach about 20,000 people. After...
...Fradd also announces the appointment of Lawrence Conley as full time instructor. Formerly Mr. Conley has given instruction in boxing, not starting his season until the winter months This year with the addition of handball, he will be on deck immediately to give expert instruction to all members of the University interested in handball which also starts today. Mr. Conley, will, as usual, give instruction in boxing during the winter months. Wrestling classes will not be started until the early part of November owing to the fact that C. J. Gallagher, newly appointed instructor in wrestling is assisting in fall...