Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unable to withstand the shock of returning to more fog and rain in Cambridge after a summer spent crossing the ocean fist one way and then the other, with a visit in foggy and rainy England in between, the 150 pound shell, which had taken part in the Henley Regatta, came to an ignominious end on route 16 some seven miles west of Cambridge...
With 14 associates of the department of Astronomy, Dr. Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory, attended two international conferences this summer and in two lectures maintained the reputation this college has of being the foremost in this hemisphere in astronomical research...
...important discoveries were reported by the Department of Biology during the summer. On the Illinois prairies William C. Darrah, instructor in Biology, discovered "the most perfect plant fossil over found," and in the trackless forests of the Pico del Yaque Mountains in the Dominican Republic. Dr. Phillip J. Darlington, assistant curator of insects in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, found many new species of insects, worms, and reptiles, hitherto unknown to science...
...year still going strong, MBS already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead of last year on its first eight months, ran up August revenues to top the same month last year by a staggering 70.4%. Despite a depression summer, MBS is still growing fast into the niche it has carved for itself in network broadcasting...
Many CBS sales executives are no longer in favor of any summer holidays for any sponsors. But President William Samuel Paley was once a sponsor himself, became interested in radio when he used it to boost sales of the La Palina cigars his father manufactured. In 1928 he bought himself CBS, built up its station membership until he now controls some 1,600 air hours a day. He sells a goodly slice of these 1,600 hours, but has by no means all for sale. Deductions must be made for: 1) Time differences across the continent. 2) Time given...