Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Westerners cannot boast of a clean record like Harvard's, their one loss to Rice College was by a narrow margin, and last weekend gave them a victory over Oklahoma. Most of the Texans are veterans of a team which last year showed much brilliant passing ability. While forward passing has played only a small part in their games so far, it is suspected that they are saving some surprises in that line for Saturday's contest, an objective at which they have been aiming for more than a year...
...games have already been announced as composing the schedule for the fall of 1932. In this schedule two minor games start off the season, New Hampshire and Penn State being the first teams to be played. The midseason strip finds Dartmouth, Brown, and Army contests being staged on successive weekends. Then the Holy Cross game, as usual, to be played the weekend before that of the Yale game, at New Haven; the game with Yale is to be the only one away from Cambridge...
...description of the game to flash the news. Leaving Shibe Park, a bulletin was handed to President Hoover. Secretary Theodore Joslin spoke for him: "The President is greatly shocked. . . . He will enlarge on that statement when he returns to Washington." ¶ Prior to leaving for his Rapidan camp last weekend, President Hoover breakfasted with Bernard Mannes Baruch, wisest of Democrats, famed director of the War Finance Corp., breakfasted and talked so long about world financial affairs that the President was two hours late getting to his office, thereby missing Secretary Mellon who had called. The late Senator Morrow in Washington...
...part of organizations of our country to express their disapproval of such expenditures now, even though the projects may be most meritorious. They should be withheld until the country is in better condition."* ¶ Rain and cold greeted President Hoover when he arrived at his Rapidan camp for the weekend. Most of his time was spent sitting around a roaring log fire talking to Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico-possibly, guessed the Press, about Governor Roosevelt's being sent to the Philippines to relieve Dwight Filley Davis...
...Personal experience stories" which the group leader reads aloud: "Two fellows of high school age went off one weekend to visit a friend. He got in touch with a bootlegger and they had considerable to drink. The two visitors got thoroughly 'soused' and had to be taken home in an automobile...