Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...India. Summer capital of quasi-independent India's British rulers is storied Simla in the hills north of Delhi. Indian Army reserve officers there made ready to mobilize last week. Throughout, steaming India, air-raid precautions were taken, especially at ports, where oil tanks and factories were camouflaged. Quaintest note of the week was an article in Bernarr Macfadden's U. S. weekly, Liberty, by India's body-mortifying Mahatma Gandhi. Excerpt...
...tutees" are chosen on the basis of scholastic grades and principals' recommendations, and some spectacularly successful cases were reported last year. One boy completed two full years of college mathematics last year. Another was awarded a scholarship in the Harvard Summer School to continue the work he had begun with his undergraduate professor...
...varsity cross-country team was undefeated, and led both Yale and Princeton in the annual triangular hill-and-dale grind. The swimming team lost only to Brown, Yale and Princeton. The basketball team fared poorly. The tennis team had a mediocre season, but during the summer combined with Yale to defeat an Oxford-Cambridge squad at Eastbourne, England...
What they saw on the tennis courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast...
...fastest multi-engined commercial plane in the world. This year the Lockheed plant turned out the two-engined P-38, one of the world's fastest pursuit ships. Lockheed is now working on a new Electra and the four-engined Excalibur, scheduled for test flight-next summer...