Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outstanding but little heard of contributions to improving conditions in the Philippine Islands was the establishing of the Baguio Boys' School at Baguio, a summer resort high in the mountains north of Manila. This school was established about 1907, if I remember correctly, and the first headmaster was Dr. Remsen B. Ogilby, now president of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. At the time this school was established, educational facilities in the Islands were practically nil for American youngsters whose parents were in the Islands for military or commercial reasons. At that time, I remember going to a Catholic school...
...Every summer the little town of Bisley, Surrey, has its day in the news when hawk-eyed, steady-handed sharpshooters assemble from all over the world to shoot for the King's prize. The famed ranges of the National Rifle Association are at Bisley, and Bisley is to shooting what St. Andrews is to golf...
...tons-third largest in the world. From President Paul von Hindenburg down, every German feels today that among the greatest triumphs of Peace must be ranked the Fatherland's astounding feat of building 3,000,000 tons of shipping in the decade since the War. The summer of 1929 was to have seen German mercantile prestige finally restored with added lustre by the completion of two new and superb liners, the Bremen and the Europa, expected to be fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat...
...Florida a little more than a week ago at the average speed of 93.123 m. p. h. The achievement broke two world's records: the salt water mark of 80.567 miles, set by the same man, and the fresh water mark of 92.834 set by his brother last summer in Detroit. The man was Garfield Wood, Gar Wood for short, and this was his answer to the disappointing race of a fortnight ago, won on points by the British speedfiend and automobile racer Henry O'Neil Dehane Segrave in a leaky boat at 61 m. p. h. With...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, nee Heenan, juvenile half of a disgusting age-and-youth sex case, last week finished a lucrative vaudeville tour and prepared for an all-summer European holiday. Her companion: Mother Heenan...