Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During the summer months the gymnasium has undergone various renovations. The old soft coal boilers have been removed, and the building is connected with the main heating system of the University. A new flood-lighting system for the main floor has also been installed...
...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...
...dreams and thoughts; they are close and unapproachable like strange voices overheard in a forest. Then the strangeness but not the glamor fades; she is bored by friendly, clumsy Martin; pities shy, remote, hedonistic Julian; loves Roddy, who is suave and erratic, quiet and incalculable. After that summer of reacquaintance she goes away to Cambridge...
...editress went on, "I believe in Cal Coolidge, Boston beans, and free beer. I did not visit any place this summer where prohibition had been heard...
Hubbard was in Soviet Russia as a delegate from Harvard of the National Students Club, while Flexner toured France during the past summer...