Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, even in regions where planting has been possible, it is only a few inches out of the ground. Corn should be from five to six feet high?even where it has been planted it is only a foot or less out of the ground. Only an abnormally long summer can save even a fraction of these two main crops. Farmers have been experimenting with soy beans, sweet potatoes, cabbages, crops as strange to them "as Broadway to an Eskimo." It is a land where cotton is king, and the king is dead...
...oilman has a 150,000-acre ranch. Vacationing later than the President, the Vice President had opportunity to acquaint himself with the beauties of many western portions of the U. S. as evidenced by the various resolutions which state legislatures passed when the site of the President's summer capital was still under debate. Possibly the Vice President's eyes chanced to focus themselves on the resolution passed by the New Mexican legislators-a powerful presentation of New Mexican advantages...
...hereby Resolved, That President Coolidge be and he is hereby invited to visit New Mexico for such vacation and to establish the federal summer capital in this ancient city...
...Their summer climate is ideal, healthful, and invigorating; the temperature moderate in the daytime and invariably cool at night...
...cinema or vaudeville circuits he announced in Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight...