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Word: summer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them may prove, Explorer Byrd has announced he will endorse none of them. Nor will he endorse the clothing designed, after months of experiment, for the expedition. U. S. underwear men went into conference at Troy (N. Y.) to evolve the airplane cloth garments for summer wear, the heavy wool underwear for winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Byrd's Plans | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

President Gaston Doumergue to the "French Summer White House," which is, as every tourist knows, the once royal Chateau de Rambouillet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Too Hot | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Walter Clark Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, sailed on the Aquitania for his usual summer trip. His chief concerns: money from the Soviets for oil properties they confiscated from his company's business allies; German extraction of oil from coal; Turkish oil production. Last week, he became president of the Near East Development Co., holders of the U. S.'s 23¾% interest in Mosul fields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 13, 1928 | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

Like another newspaper chain owner, famed Frank Ernest Gannett, Publisher Block was trained in the quiet city of Elmira, in the "southern tier" of New York State. He went to Public School No. 1, and in his summer vacations he did odd jobs, ran errands for the Sunday Telegram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Friend Block | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...picturesque nine-hole golf course, but his game is indifferent. He once played 13 consecutive holes in fives. It was a triumph he has neither forgotten nor repeated. Occasionally, he rides one of his saddle horses. Occasionally, he takes a hand in running the estate, as this summer, when his gardeners reported that his lake was leaking. For the most part he leaves the house and grounds to his wife. He asks only that he can bring 20 guests to dinner without warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Friend Block | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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