Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yours of the 16th instant to hand a day or two ago. You should have been with us this summer. The finest weather that I have ever seen in the Arctic. No ice, no wind, sun-plenty of it-all the time. We covered 8,500 miles. I never saw "Greenland right, nor the opposite shore until this time...
...American Legation at Peking last summer arranged to buy its winter supply of coal from a mine about 20 miles from Peking. The railroad was under the control of Wu Pei-fu, the then dominant war lord. His underlings demanded a 'squeeze' of $2 per ton for the use of cars to move the coal...
From their gay, Gothic home beyond the Hackensack meadows they come the young visitors. The square is filled with them. Orange and Black mingles with sober crimson in the store windows. Spectators speculate; trefoil frailties and the Yard gendarmes reminisce quite audibly. One might call it Indian summer--but the House of Hanover could not brook that...
Cotton Textile. The Cotton Textile Institute, created last summer to integrate the merchandising of cotton fabrics (TIME, Aug. 2), needs a president. Onetime (1911-17) Senator Henry Frederick Lippitt of Rhode Island has been temporary president. Last week his directors made him chairman...
...platform with M. P. Lichanco '20, a former student at the Law School, who is one of the staunchest advocates of Philippine freedom and co-author of an authoritative work on the subject. Last night the two speakers were at Ford Hall. Mr. Villamin attended the Williamstown conference last summer, and has spoken frequently at the 'Foreign Policies' Association in New York. Because he is practically the only educated Philippine who does not advocate independence, his views have attracted much attention...