Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...
...United States unfortunately cannot pass on the economies which may be effected in the future through the cheaper raw material, until the stocks purchased at higher prices have been converted into goods and marketed. If there is no upswing in rubber prices by the middle of the summer, tire prices should be cheaper by that time...
Later in the summer the expedition will go along the Arctic coast of Siberia, hunting for live and mummified animals, birds, fish...
...University Film Foundation. Pathe will do the financing and shoot the pictures in distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers, zoologists, geologists, anthropologists applauded the idea...
...there a cautious transatlantic flier, then his name is Capt. Hermann Koehl, pilot of this German expedition. In this same ship, the Bremen, he started for America late last summer, got over Ireland, found the hazards impossible to negotiate, and turned back home to try again some happier...