Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gertrude's college days were broken up by summer holidays in Europe. Sometimes she went with Leo, sometimes with friends. By this time, Gertrude travelled on her own and had become completely independent. To a large extent, this happened because her older brother and guardian, Mike, got married. Sister-in-law Sarah Solomons feared that openmindedness which made Gertrude say, "The trouble with you girls from Smith is raw virginity...
Years after the squabble seemed to have been won, U.S. colleges and universities last week were skirmishing with their old hoodoo, the loyalty oath. Source of the trouble: a paragraph in last summer's $887 million National Defense Education Act, which provides that to qualify for a loan or fellowship, a student must 1) swear allegiance to the U.S., and 2) affirm that he "does not believe in, and is not a member of and does not support any organization that believes in or teaches the overthrow of the U.S. Government by force or violence or by any illegal...
...hour more. Scores of mills ranging from West Point (Ga.) Manufacturing Co. to Avondale Mills in Alabama announced that they too were raising wages. By week's end pay raises had been promised to 100,000 textile workers, and textilemen predicted increases would sweep the entire industry by summer...
Anderson's troubles began last spring when it became clear that the Treasury would have to raise up to $12 billion to cover the Government's deficit for this fiscal year. But they did not become acute until summer. Then Government bonds, which had been providing speculators with fat profits as they rose while interest rates fell (TIME. Aug. 18), went into a slump when interest rates began to climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep...
Author Johnson's novel covers the last summer of Skipton's life. A party of English tourists comes to Bruges, and Skipton sets out to fleece them for his winter wear. He finds a whore for one of the men and snob delights for the woman in the party; for both sexes he arranges a Pigalle-type "spectacle." But by summer's end Skipton has himself been swindled out of what little money remains to him: his sole consolation is that death is close enough to save him from the agonies of another winter...