Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaking will begin at 8 o'clock, when A. J. Ostheimer '29 will talk on his experiences in the Canadian Rockies last summer, particularly of his ascent of Mount Forbes and Lyell. He was the first man ever to reach the summit of Mount Lyell...
...custom consists in granting to some faithful servant of the Crown a life lease on White Lodge, the royal estate at Richmond Park. The faithful and sometimes quixotic public servant rewarded was Viscount Lee of Fareham, who had given his own estate, Chequers, to be used as a summer residence for British premiers...
William Montgomery McGovern, explorer: "I landed at Boston last week and immediately told the rocking-chair voyagers there the same tales of jungleering that I told last summer upon emerging from the Amazon hinterland (TIME, July 5). I told of civilizations antedating the Incas, of a human race so low that other natives call them animal folk, of finding caterpillars tough eating. At this time I did not stress the fact that I am a Buddhist priest, regularly authenticated in Tibet...
Testimony of H. H. Robinson. "During the summer of 1920, I met a man on Park Row whom I had thought dead, because he was a wreck the last time I had seen him, but he was all dressed up and looked fine. ... I had met lots of Christians, socalled, and rather despised them . . . but I had to admit they had done something for this man. And what impressed me most, this man was waiting to tell some boy that was a drug addict that Jesus Christ would cure...
...Professor Wood's summer laboratory at Easthampton, L. I., there were, for long periods, heaps and masses of strange fruits, herbs, berries. Distilling out their essential oils, combining and recombining, adding and subtracting now orange, now pungent juniper, Professor Wood satisfied himself at last that he had the exact formula of essential oils that were added to glycerine, alcohol and distilled water to produce the finest commercial gin. Professor Wood then told his secret to manufacturing chemists and had prepared many tiny vials which he called "Eastwood Essence" and gave to friends at Christmas time. His friends urged...