Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While her husband was thus engaged, Mrs. Coolidge went to Custer, S. Dak. to dedicate a $15,000 log community building, made her first public speech of the summer. Said she in toto...
...Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, is of the opinion that man reached North America via the Aleutian Islands, or a onetime land bridge, from eastern Siberia. Last summer Dr. Hrdlicka scoured the Alaskan shore north to Cape Barrow, returning via the Yukon River (TIME...
Allez-Oop is the cry form clever comedians and lively chorines to lift a mediocre revue into a summer hit. The music squeaks and the staging fumbles; but Victor Moore as an amateur elocutionist, Charles Butterworth as a terrified orator, a pair of clown esthetic dancers and the pretty chorus in a burlesque of Roxy Theatre pageants manage to boost the entertainment to the high level that theatre-goers expect of a show boasting sketches by J. P. McEvoy...
...Corp. of America announced that within a month it would place a "beam" radio service insuring high speed and privacy at the disposal of U. S. businessmen desirous of communicating with London. The announcement came as the fourth in a series of transatlantic communication improvements within a year. Last summer the Western Union Co. completed laying the second of two loaded or "permalloy" cables across the Atlantic capable of carrying 2,500' code letters per minute each (TIME, July...
...newspaper-readers were thus assured that Channel-swimming would not be a headline craze again this summer. Miss Ederle, now appearing in "small-time" U. S. vaudeville, and other swimmers may have felt vexed at the "fickleness" of public interest. But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle...