Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since sunspot behavior is irregular, it is sometimes impossible to tell that a peak or a trough has been passed until many months afterward. At a summer meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...year, after running away with the U. S. and Canadian sculling championships with machine-like ease, oarsmen dubbed him the "rowing robot," marveled at the power of his arms. But his brawny arms are nothing compared to his perseverance. In preparing for the Henley Regatta, throughout last winter and summer, the Jersey farm boy rowed 3,000 miles on the narrow, winding Rancocas, with a stopwatch strapped between his toes...
...castigate Professor Gellermann. . . . The highest evaluation that can be placed on his literary effort is to say that it represents the puny product of a small mind." N. E. A.'s delegates cheered. Mr. Doherty dismissed Professor Counts by remarking that he was an adviser to the Moscow Summer School, to Professor Gellermann's charges, retorted that the Legion was democratically controlled by its 11,444 posts, today has the highest membership in its history-935,829. Added Lawyer Doherty: "I am just a humble Legionnaire. . . . I know that I have no connection with any intrenched interests, financial...
...educational institution," Fan & Bubble Dancer Sally Rand, who two months ago told Harvard students How to Be Intelligent Though Educated (TIME, May 16), was forbidden by University of Colorado's President George Norlin to deliver a scheduled lecture on "Art and the Workers" at the University's summer school. Snapped Lecturer Rand: "I think it is, in poor taste for President Norlin to use me for publicity purposes for himself. He should hire his own press agent...
...them by charging 30? one way, 50? round trip. San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific's rate-cutting didos might have something to do with the road's scheme to sell its ferry franchise to the State Toll Bridge Authority for some $3,750,000. Last summer the Authority appealed to the State Railroad Commission to force the Southern Pacific to increase its ferry rates...