Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the warm summer months the nation's coal stockpiles remained comfortably high-enough for 70 days-despite reduced production...
Last week, in the late Indiana summer, 65-year-old Fletcher Chapel stood as firm as its surrounding maples and oaks-still a modest roadside church, but a strengthened landmark in the rural heartland of U.S. religion...
...found much time to visit with the man he usually refers to as "my father," but sometimes as "Stravinsky." He has been too busy "living with Scarlatti" (he will record some sonatas for Allegro records this week) and preparing for his first U.S. piano concert tour. All summer, he taught piano six hours a day at the Music Academy of the West, in Santa Barbara...
Frozen Feet. In the summer, the sun beat down on the school's tin roof, the pine boards sweated resin, and the smaller pupils dropped off to sleep. In winter "after the white frosts had fallen and blanketed the frozen land . . . many times I saw the red spots . . . from the bleeding little bare feet of those who came to school regardless of shoes." Jesse had to cure pretty 14-year-old Vaida Conway of spitting tobacco juice on the schoolhouse walls, and furtive Alvin Purdy of scribbling obscenities in the privy...
Steam shovels moved into Jarvis Field this summer to start excavations for the University's new $3,000,000 Graduate Center. Wrecking crows are already well along with the job of tearing down the Portland huts, temporary units which housed six veterans and their families...