Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less pleasant than Sing Sing are New York's Auburn and Dannemora, with their ancient cell blocks, cramped, fetid cells, loathsome bucket system of sewage disposal, where last summer's riotings began. Less pleasant, too, is the State Penitentiary at Canon City, Colo., where a deadly, guard-killing outbreak took place (TIME, Oct. 14). Less pleasant also is the Federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last summer's fourth rioter, where Warden T. B. White has had to pack convicts by twos and threes into one-man cells, stuff them by scores into cell-house basements...
...been a great deal of adverse criticism of the system now in use, according to Mr. Pennypacker. Two methods of examination are possible: the restricted plan, whereby a student takes his examination during his preparatory years, and the comprehensive plan, which requires but one exam, and that during the summer of the year in which the student is to enter college...
...Cambridge Tercentenary, plans for which are now going forward under the leadership of Robert Walcott '95, will probably be celebrated next summer, when exercises will be held with the cooperation of the University. Exact announcement of plans for the tercentennial program here has not been made...
...York City. To defend this enormous area, the Australian conscription law provided that boys must register at the age of 14, that those physically able must serve as citizen soldiers between the age of 17 and 21, must drill two hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...
...been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles in 1919 and at Paris in 1929, Mr. Lamont is summoned to speak for U. S. finance. He himself considers his work at Paris last summer the most significant of his life...