Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Malcolm J. Rowe '42 and Joseph S. Stern '40 will represent Harvard in Labrador this summer as Grenfell Mission Workers it was announced recently by Thomas H. E. Quimby '40 of the Phillips Brooks House Grenfell Mission Committee...
...first two men, big 190 lb. Ace Cordingly and slender Bob Graves, are now Juniors and have played together since their Freshman year. Cordingly, only recently recovered from a football injury, in the Big Bertha of the outfit and Graves' long, well-balanced game belies his weight. Last summer, Cordingly climaxed a summer of golfing wars by finishing as low Amateur in the Iowa State Open...
...warm day last summer a New York World-Telegram rewrite man became slightly silly while reading a weather report, stuck a piece of paper in his typewriter and wrote: "Today is a nice day." This got into the paper, and next thing the Telegram's city room knew, people were calling up to offer congratulations. Since then the World-Telegram has run a gag story on the weather every two or three days, and they have become the big town's richest newspaper chuckle. Sample...
...Federal Government's $3,505,000 contribution is little more than a gift, with some slight value as good-will advertising. All told, other States came through with only $2,000,000-which they may hope to get back in the form of extra summer visitors...
Already the fair's business stimulus has spread far beyond Manhattan. Washington is sprucing up for an expected 5,000,000 more summer visitors than usual. The $100,000.000 worth of materials used in building the fair have come from every corner of the U. S. Labor has benefited by some 96,000,000 man-hours. American Express Co. reports an 8 to 10% increase in export and import freight due to the fair. Railroads, airlines, busses joyously await "the greatest travel movement in history...