Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another important result of the study of the radio reception is to show completely how unfounded is the popular impression that radio reception is universally poor in summer and good in winter. Generally speaking, reception should be better in the winter months on account of the shortened days and decreased daylight. On the other hand, the sunspots and radio curves show that the increased solar activity actually gave much poorer reception in the winter months of both 1926 and 1927 than during the summers of the same years. With the recent decrease in spots on the sun, radio reception during...
President and Senhora Washington Luis Pereira de Souza† had come into Rio from the summer capital at Petropolis in time to dash up to the gangplank amid a fanfare of trumpets. Also present were Vice President Mello Vianna and many a Senator and Deputy. Bright-uniformed guards lined the Avenida Rio Branco up which the procession passed. Confetti and ticker-tape snowed down à la the U. S. The crowd was estimated at the conventional...
...hotel was sold, at a price said to be around $20,000,000, and will be razed next summer...
Baseball is the chief interest of Japanese sporting bloods. Eighty thousand Nipponese gather to watch schoolboy baseball games. Each summer day on the Eastern Island crowds stand in the streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
...Summer passed with its flowers, fall with its gleaning; the stalks stood bare in the fields. A general taxation had been decreed for all the Roman Empire. In compliance with custom it became necessary for Joseph to make the nine days' journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem, far south in the province of Judaea, the city of David, there to be taxed. It was nigh Mary's time but he took her with...