Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Dr. Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 80, trudged back to Dietramszell, his summer home in the Bavarian Alps, after three days of successful chamois shooting on the foggy crags nearby...
Antonio Scotti, baritone, returned from a summer in Italy to begin his 29th season with the Metropolitan Opera Co., Manhattan. Asked which was the "greatest" soprano with whom he had ever sung, said he: "But most of them are still alive! Do you think I'm crazy...
Cosmic Rays. The hall was packed to hear Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead...
...Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was, obviously, wealthy. Early this summer Capt. Leslie Hamilton, British War flyer, commercial stunt flyer called the "Flying Gypsy," besought her backing for a transatlantic flight. The Princess trusted Captain Hamilton. For many years she had known him and flown with him. She advanced the money...
...feet. Pointing westward, they found a blinding mist. After a three-hour struggle, they felt it foolhardy to fly through fog with 1,000 feet maximum altitude, gave up temporarily the transatlantic flight, returned to Le Bourget. ¶Capt. F. T. Courtney, English flyer, waited almost all summer to make the treacherous westward passage across the Atlantic in his flying boat, The Whale. With autumn coming and weather chances fading, he hopped off from Plymouth, England. Fearing the dangerous northern route on which were lost Nungesser and Coli, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, Courtney steered for the Azores. Head winds...