Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest...
...Cambridge, England, last week, where the British Association for the Advancement of Science was assembled for its summer meeting, two distinguished scientists were much in evidence. One was Robert John Strutt, Baron Rayleigh (pronounced "ray-lee"), an authority on radioactivity, son of the late' great Rayleigh who was best known for his discovery of the "noble" gases (helium, argon, etc.). This year, Lord Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge...
Last week, while Don Budge was further demonstrating his invincibility by breezing through the Newport Invitation tournament in his first appearance in singles competition on U. S. courts this summer, the Australian Davis Cuppers (Quist & Bromwich) were at Longwood-proving their proficiency by taking all five matches from the German team of Henner Henkel & Georg von Metaxa (an Austrian acquired by anschluss to replace imprisoned Baron Gottfried von Cramm). After losing their third straight match, the German team received a cable from the German Tennis Federation "requesting" them to discontinue further competition in the U. S., return home...
...Western Reserve University summer school in Cleveland, Isaac S. Metcalf Jr., writing a thesis on the subject of what minnows eat, discovered that the best way to get minnows for experiments was out of the stomachs of fresh fish, spent the summer fishing...
...wide St. Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...