Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who go abroad this summer may be subject to unnecessary delay unless they are familiar with the customs regulations of each country they visit, Gerald J. Downing, Manager of the Foreign Department of the Harvard Trust, said yesterday...
...incident last summer contradicts Mullins' claim: While I was in the office of the Herald's political columnist, his phone rang, and Mullins identified the caller as Choate. The topic of conversation appeared to be Mullins' treatment of the Robert Bradford-Sinclair Weeks split at the Republican Convention. Weeks, a perusal of old Heralds may convince you, did not come off too well in Mullins' columns in the immediate end-of-convention period. As soon as Mullins hung up he went into Choate's office, and did not return for half an hour...
Help from Dogs. Columnist Deutsch also repeated a conversation with Dr. Prinzmetal at a medical meeting in Chicago last summer, when Hearst's doctor was demonstrating an earlier heart technique involving radioactive sodium (TIME, July 5). Dr. Prinzmetal said he had tested his radiocardiograph on "scores" of dogs before it was used on humans and "our development of the radiocardiograph would have been impossible without dog experimentation." Asked Deutsch: "Then you don't advocate anti-vivisection?" Replied Dr. Prinzmetal: "On the contrary . . . medical research would be crippled without judicious use of animal experimentation...
...risked storms and shipwreck; on the land-and-water route via the Isthmus of Panama (33 to 35 days), the perils included yellow fever and cholera. By the Overland and Santa Fe Trails, over which 50,000 traveled in 1849 alone, the trip could take all spring and all summer-and the gold seeker, plodding onward beyond the alkali desert in the Humboldt Valley, thought himself lucky to get across the Sierras* before the first snows...
...reader must know to understand what is to come, but also remembering such things as a day when she was a little girl, lying in the grass: "The heat waved over tier hands and face and the air rippled all around her in little rings and circulations of summer tunes. She put out a finger to deflect an emerald beetle climbing a blade of grass and watched it spread its pretty double wings and fly away; there was a long procession of ants running toward an anthill; spiders spun webs; a butterfly opened and closed its wings; the clover...