Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject of pressure is corked in one place, it is likely to leak out in another. Last week, anxious to guess what President Coolidge was thinking about the 1928 election, people passed around a remark, attributed to Son John Coolidge. Asked what he was going to do the coming summer, John Coolidge was said to have let slip: "Go to Europe, I guess, unless Father runs again...
...Boston Navy Yard July 4. It has been suggested that when the ship leaves Boston she might proceed to New London for the Harvard-Yale boat races the next day and leave for Halifax from there. Owing to the heavy demands upon the time of the Wyoming all next summer and the difficulty of rearranging the itinerary, there is only a bare possiblity that this part of the program will be carried...
...less individual move toward Protestant unity was detailed in the final report of the World Conference on Faith and Order, held at Lausanne, Switzerland, last summer. Formulated by a committee of which Peter Ainslie was one of the members, the report was made public last week by Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. It pointed out that "unity" of faith did not necessarily imply "uniformity" in the expression of faith; that co-operation in foreign mission fields, and the willingness of many Christians to join "without regard for denominational differences" in the sacrament...
...minute portion of U. S. womanhood which is diligently muscular looks forward to a trip abroad this summer. For the first time in the history of athletics events for women* will be included in the track and field program of the Olympic Games...
Committee, under Otto Hermann Kahn, has elaborate plans. There will be: 1) an international composer's contest extending throughout this spring, with prizes of $20,000 to be awarded by the Columbia Phonograph Co.; 2) outdoor singing festivals during the spring and summer, in which choruses the country over will participate; 3) special Schubert concerts in the autumn at which there will be performed cycles of his chamber music, his piano music, his symphonies, and the possible first U. S. performance of a Schubert opera; 4) special commemoration programs to be given on Nov. 19, the anniversary...