Word: summer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...estate on the Brule, has its own trout hatcheries in spring-fed ponds. The Presidential catch was 137 (in two sessions). While the President fished, Mrs. Coolidge and John Coolidge took a swim in the Lewis swimming pool. Mrs. Coolidge said it was the most fun she had this summer...
Unprecedented last week was a deluge of snow which spread death and destruction in Trebizond. Nineteen feet lay piled on the Gümush-Khane plain above the city while, across the mountains, Constantinople and Angora were sweltering in their hottest summer...
...independence. But to the topography of their country they owe most. This plateau, sloping to the southeastern angle of the Black Sea, is cut off from the rest of Asia Minor by a barrier of rugged mountains, blessing it with political and climatic isolation. Rarely above 88° in summer or below 10° in winter, the weather, humid, temperate, contrasts with that of not distant inland regions where great extremes of heat and cold are common...
...Summer tide of books recedes, these loom as foremost in significance...
...year ago, Mitchell the Elder died. Nearly 7,000 shares of stock in the Illinois Merchants Trust went to his five children, together with the exotic, octagonal summer house at Lake Geneva, Wis., once the Ceylon exhibit at the Chicago fair, transplanted bodily by Banker Mitchell...