Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cotsworth-Eastman proposed calendar [TIME, June 27] would produce hopeless confusion in rearrangement of dates, would make obsolete all present dating machines and apparatus containing such. Another objection, important in eyes of hard-worked businessmen: would give them three (or two) days less summer vacation...
Sirs: "As everyone knows" (except "one" gallomaniac on your staff) some kinds of pollen, when inhaled, produce in pollen-sensi-TIME, July 25, 1927 tive persons an inflammation of the respiratory mucous membranes, variously known catarrh, as etc., and "hay-fever" altogether rose-cold" distinct from "summer" "strawberry-rash" which is a skin eruption, caused by eating strawberries. Obviously the last-mentioned malady has no connection with pollen. A few pollen grains may accidentally be present, but strawberries are not inhaled ; not even by French gourmets.* Pollen in plants corresponds to semen in animals, and is produced only...
...name along with Lincoln's.. The deed essential for such fame was his getting behind the proposed Lucretia Mott Amendment (giving women equal rights with men) and securing its passage by Congress. So said a delegation from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting to get a standard eight-hour day, but it is the eight-hour day for women that...
...against the Government that the Chamber is going to vote, but for or against the budget of France. . . ." The Deputies, perhaps moved by M. Poincare's words and certainly influenced by the fact that they were in a hurry to disperse for their summer vacation, voted the budget unchanged and upheld the Government by a vote of 347 to 200. Notable was the small number of abstentions, 33, out of a house totaling 580. The large vote seemed positive evidence that M. Poincaré's appeal had been seriously heeded by politicians often selfish and scatterbrained...
There being no more comets or eclipses scheduled for this summer, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, assistant secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, left Washington last week for Mount Wilson, Calif, (near Los Angeles), to pursue what has been his special study for many years, the heat of stars. Dr. Abbot has climbed the world's most arid mountains to study the sun's heat. Subordinates of his are at present sitting in an extinct South African crater continuing this work, an immediate purpose of which is to facilitate long-range weather prediction. But far more difficult to measure than...