Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grant's match in the State squash championship race was the highlight of the weekend athletic events. Defeating Patterson of the Business School, 3-2 in a tight five-game match, he is the worthy successor to Beekman Pool '32, who has won this tournament for the last two years, and who just won the New York State crown...
...committees, stated that as yet no definite arrangements had been made; the early selection of committee and date for the affair is to enable the committee to work up all necessary details, and to allow members of the House, and their guests, ample time for their plans for this weekend, which comes the week which will he the one following the final Yale hockey game...
...same day last week the Legislatures of North Dakota and Tennessee ratified the 20th Amendment to the Constitution to eliminate "lame duck" sessions of Congress. They were the 32nd and 33rd States to do so. Next day Idaho and New Mexico fell into line. Then, over the weekend, began a race to see which State would be the 36th which would complete ratification. Favorite was Massachusetts, benefited by one hour in time. Georgia and Utah were champing at the bit. At this point a dark horse developed. In Jefferson City, Mo. members of the General Assembly were secretly telephoned...
Some people work hard because they like to. Playwright Coward is one of them. A good part of the time his mind must be as teeming as the last week of a rehearsal. So well had he mentally planned Hay Fever that he wrote it during a house-party weekend. Private Lives was the product of a week's flu-confinement in a Hong Kong hotel. The record is sagging. It took months of voyaging in South American waters for him to jot down Design For Living...
...moved the London Weekend Review to a puzzled analysis of U. S. character: "What sort of revolution can America expect? Not a Communistic or Socialist putsch . . . nor in a nation so uninterested in politics is a Fascist type of movement possible. . . . The chances of Technocracy must not be underrated. That it is radical and mechanistic enough to appeal to American slump Psychology is clear...