Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the summer of 1901 Professor Leo Wiener made a collection of books in the Near East, which Professor Coolidge bought for Widener, where it is now known as the Slavic Collection...
...Baden Ministry of Education proposed building, but the War prevented. Last summer the Ministry appealed to the Diet, which could not promise an appropriation for two years. Americans provided a student home. Ambassador Schurman's fund will provide for future needs...
...give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine-burning crude oil instead of gasoline-and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each...
...history of her growth and change is divided into three episodes, each with a new background, a new partner. The first episode has for its background a smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...
...Hahn of the Boston Athletic Association, America has no outstanding half-milers to run the Olympic 800 metre distance. Lowe of England the 1924 Olympic winner at this distance and Edwards of Canada, now at New York University, but who will run on the maple leaf team this summer, together with Martin of France and Peltzer of Germany, seem to Coach Farrell to be the probable leaders in this event. Nurmi might make a strong bid in the race, if he should run it and any one of the following might come through the winner or take places: Bocher...