Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much air-cooling in the summer is unhealthy, says Dr. Mills. "Body and mind seem to need this annual period of biologic rest. Any great degree of summer cooling tends to keep the body machine going at winter speed, and must only accentuate the signs of wear and tear...
...London last week was staged what was tantamount to a preview of the Olympic Games to be held in Helsinki next summer. At White City Stadium 95 hand-picked track & field stars representing 16 nations competed in the British A. A. A.'s annual international track meet. Before 60,000 onlookers, the U. S. team of ten won eight of the 14 events, broke two British records (440-yd. hurdles and shot put), piled up 54 points-13 more than Great Britain, 29 more than Germany, 38 more than Italy...
...those U. S. citizens who remember the horse-&-buggy days, no sport takes them back so fast as a trotting race, no sport event is more endearing than the Hambletonian, richest and most famed of the 25,000 or more harness races held in the U. S. every summer...
...past six years the Boston Symphony's Berkshire Festival, near Stockbridge, Mass.,has provided an elegant musical salt lick amid the favorite summer grazing grounds of Boston's contented Brahmins. Spooned delicately out by the great Dr. Serge Koussevitzky and his flawless orchestra, the Festival's six annual programs have so far been noted more for purity than for pungency. But last week the Berkshire Festival produced an unusually big and tangy lump of salt. A brown, bosomy, 28-year-old Negro soprano named Dorothy Maynor, who went to Stockbridge to hear the music, ended...
Since then auto production has gone down a smooth grade to the late summer valley where the industry will change to its 1940 production models. Impatient for the next rise, the industry set the New York automobile show, which officially opens the 1940 model year, to begin October 15, earlier than ever before. But even this did not satisfy the impatience of motormakers to get the fall selling season started...