Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foot, 20-year-old Stanley Fiese of Beloit (Wis.) was last week putting his 185 lb. of brain and brawn behind a helpful idea-Registered Collegiate Thumbers. A student at St. Ambrose College in Davenport (Iowa), he got the idea last May, thumbed his way around during the summer to enlist boys in several colleges...
Post-War Broadway blazed with such names-in-lights as Ziegfeld, George White, Dillingham, Hammerstein, Carroll. Of a warm summer night buyers from the corn-belt flocked with their women to the New Amsterdam roof; winter after winter the Music Box ground out its medley of tunes...
...except for one lone week-had a smash hit on Broadway. Last week, their / Married An Angel, entering its fifth month, grossed over $28,681-a new high-and averaged 80 standees a performance. This week, road-show rehearsals start on I'd Rather Be Right after its summer holiday. A week or two hence rehearsals will start on a third Rodgers & Hart show, The Boys from Syracuse, which they are doing with Playwright-Producer George Abbott. Their tunes are whistled in the street, clunked out by hurdy-gurdies on the curb. The press, fumbling for a phrase...
...Women's teams outdraw men's teams as box-office attractions, not only in Hollywood but all over the country. Even Manhattan's famed Madison Square Garden succumbed to women's softball this summer to swell their coffers, put on a semiweekly program of double headers featuring their own Roverettes and visiting teams...
...summer died and autumn rains swept the Atlantic seaboard, jolly Professor Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby last week talked about weather in a Swedish accent to members of the Fifth International Congress of Applied Mechanics, at Cambridge. Mass. New facts had been obtained, said Dr. Rossby, from weather sounding balloons and airplane explorations of the upper atmosphere. These had been woven together into an original theory about the general circulation of the atmosphere, an elaborate theory still thin in spots, but one that raises scientific hopes for more accurate weather prediction...