Word: letting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throwing away some of the fine points of hockey in permitting offside play and are catering to the crowds in their attempt to add the spectacular to the game. The rule was not taken over this year because it has always been the policy of the amateurs to let the pros do the experimenting. The innovation will this year get its share of watching and if it warrants adoption by the colleges it will certainly be introduced. At present however the intercollegiate coaches seem eager to keep the hockey game intact and interpret it correctly rather than adopt a doubtful...
...talking to a lot of jumbo elephants. . . . Somebody harbors a fear of a man named Grundy. Some of the criticisms have sounded like the malicious gossip of women. . . . So long as I am governor I intend to uphold our state and I would fail in my duty if I let the threat of any Senator dictate the selection...
Vigorously last week Tardieu L'Américain lashed into the Deputies a proposal to hold three sessions every week day until the budget is voted. If they must talk, let it be morning, noon and night, until the bitter end. With much grumbling they assented. Then Tardieu did a double-snapper with his whip-demanded that they sit thrice a day on Sunday too. Rebellion loomed, but Ringmaster Tardieu fired a figurative blank cartridge, demanded a vote of confidence. After less than a month in Power he has the Deputies so thoroughly cowed that they licked his hand...
...disarmament on which he had labored many a year. It so happened that the Hoover plan-which Mr. Gibson had in his pocket-paralleled almost exactly in its two most important aspects the Litvinov scheme,* though no one present knew that then except Mr. Gibson. Plan in pocket, he let Litvinov talk, declined to comment in open meeting, told correspondents privately that the Soviet scheme was not worthy of comment or consideration, suggested that Comrade Litvinov had presented it in bad faith...
After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico...