Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy; Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology; Frederick L. Hisaw, professor of Zoology; Ernest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and director of the summer school, were among the signers of the manifesto...
...York arrived a smuggled letter telling of the end of Spyros Vlachos, 29-year-old Greek correspondent. Last summer Reporter Vlachos had the rashness to telephone a dispatch to the New York Times declaring the Cretan revolt was "more serious than the governmental communiqués indicated." Arrested and blacklisted, he poisoned himself November 14 because he "could no longer stand the loss of liberty in his chosen profession...
...charge of Engineer Frank Elwin Weymouth, the job gave work to 45,000 men, fun and head aches to no less than 300 engineers. The last tunnel was holed through by blasting last month. Expectations were At the rubble would be cleared by next week, that by next summer Colorado River water would start pouring into Cajalco Reservoir, thence to Los Angeles and twelve other thirsty California towns...
...retreat) in Lucknow, India is the spiritual home, and sometimes the physical home, of the world's greatest Christian missionary-Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, Methodist, author of The Christ of the Indian Road, evangelist to high-caste Hindus, who call him Rishi (a saint). From his Ashram last summer Dr. Jones wrote his friends about the Kingdom of God, declaring: "Never have I been so convinced that this is the one hope of the human race. How my heart tingles with joy that we have such a message for such a time as this." Missionary Jones then left India...
Bored not only by the law but also by society, music, art, outdoor sports and the movies, Benedict Cobb spent each summer quietly in Pittsfield, Mass., each autumn in Boston, each winter in Washington, each spring abroad. He seldom visited Tarrytown, his birthplace. But for some 60 years he went back often to New Haven for football games and alumni affairs. So modest, however, that he never posed for a photograph, Benedict Cobb was known to few Yalemen, was quickly forgotten when he dropped out of alumni activities...