Word: ices
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...party member both in the Commons and the Lords. He is acceptable to the Conservatives because as captain of Eton and Cambridge teams he is remembered as a cricketer who could bowl a fast "googly," an ability which still serves him well, spinning curling stones over slippery Canadian ice; because he is a famed grouse shot, was once told by George V (one of the best wing shots in England), that "a little serious work" would make him the best shot in England; because though he might be tainted with impractical Liberal notions, he was known as an administrator...
...thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present Constitution does not provide for public referenda.) Finnish observers credited this parliamentary Wetness last week to the final windup of the famed Stahlberg kidnapping case...
Harvard's hockey sextet will officially start off its 1930-1931 season tonight when it takes the ice against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology team in the Boston Garden. The game is scheduled to start at 8.15 o'clock...
Coach Hodder spoke next, touching upon the insufficient time the Freshman squad would have on the ice, and of the necessity that they do a great deal of self-conditioning. He said that a quick cut will be obligatory, since facilities are too small to accommodate the entire number of those who have signed up for the sport...
Associated with Dr. Bigelow in connection with the U. S. Ice Patrol is Olaf Mosby, formerly of the Geophysical Institute at Bergen, Norway...